Render Passes - Polyloop

new_guy · 12th January 2006, 06:57

Can anyone give me a few tips on rendering passes? Like for instance if I were to build a complex scene with many elements. How can I render seprate passes to assemble later in say After Affects.

bwtr · 12th January 2006, 07:35

I am interested in the real answer also. My guess is--and only a guess--is that you make different items in the scene not visible for different passes. That is untick "visible" in the general tab.

I am waiting to find out if my CG "logic" is improving!

new_guy · 12th January 2006, 07:54

Hmm..that's what I thought too and tried that approach. It didn't seem to work for me. There must be another way.

Aunty Betty · 12th January 2006, 15:46

I was under the impression that you turned off ( made invisible ) anything you didn't want to render (or include an alpha channel) and in the render settings > under Output checked the render alpha channel option to export a mask to be used in other apps.

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12th January 2006, 07:35	#2 (permalink)
bwtr Brian Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: South Australia Posts: 2,094	I am interested in the real answer also. My guess is--and only a guess--is that you make different items in the scene not visible for different passes. That is untick "visible" in the general tab. I am waiting to find out if my CG "logic" is improving!

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new_guy Vertex Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 8	Hmm..that's what I thought too and tried that approach. It didn't seem to work for me. There must be another way.

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Aunty Betty In the blooming heather Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Little Happening Posts: 569	I was under the impression that you turned off ( made invisible ) anything you didn't want to render (or include an alpha channel) and in the render settings > under Output checked the render alpha channel option to export a mask to be used in other apps.