Rendering Tons Of Stuff

[user_deleted]

I'm about to start rendering "for real", ie. putting out multiple different renders for one shot (various mattes, beauty pass, diffuse pass, spec pass, etc etc)..... I've seen this done in production countless times but never done it myself other than by hand, painfully.

Are there any tools or mel scripts that facilitate the process of "pieceing out" a scene like that? I can't imagine you're supposed to prepare your scenes by hand by turning this or that object/texture off or on and then batch render each one manually?

[davesrose]

you want to use the render layer editor (under window/rendering editors). Maya's help will tell you how to assign passes/ materials to each layer. It works wonders.

[user_deleted]

hmm. I'm in Maya 6. And there's no such editor under rendering editors.... is that a maya 7/8 feature?
if it is, any suggestions on how to proceed w/ maya 6?

[drblacksnake]

look under channelBox - there should be Display and... Render switches for Layer editor which is right under chanbox.

[joojaa]

I have a old windows specific example for maya 6 users yes.
renderingPassesDemo.zip(~11k, zipped ma, txt and bat file)

Because the render layers mechanism in maya does not realy work properly/and well enough i use it once in a while. Tough granted i prefeer mr to spit many layers at once. So i would never actualy render it thisway but its just a quick (and hopefully decipherable) demo after all.