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View Layer token

Well, title says it all... but I'll to explain it better:

I do work a lot with different "ViewLayers / RenderLayers" and sometimes I need to re-render again single or multiple separates layers and I have to go changing the name of the output image file again, and again... time consuming and prone to typing or naming errors.

So I propose to add a mini "token" system on the output render tab like "#LayerName" so every time I re-render a single ViewLayer it changes the output automatically.

A couple visual examples as image to ilustrate it better.

Example A: Used token for file name. Example B: Used token twice, folder name and file name.

I hope it makes sense...

Cheers, Ignasi aka Topeich Example_A.png Example_B.png

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Topeich
8 Oct 2021

3 Comments

Lauloque

We need tokens for everything. camera name, lens, scene name, .... the only existing token in Blender right now is # used for the frame number.

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simonstoschu

I'd also like such a function - just pointing out that you can also use the File Output Node in the Compositor for this: a

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Topeich Author

So interesting, didn't knew that so I'll try asap. Thx.