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  • Published 14 Jan 2022

Warning - Missing Composite Connection in Render Animation

Hi everybody.

I just finished rendering an animation that took hours only to find out that it rendered black! I had been fiddling with the compositor and forgot to connect to the composite node - hours of rendering work lost :-( Now, wouldn't it be a GREAT idea to have a warning box popping up if the composite node is not connected? Or even better - not being able to render if the node is not connected?

Cheers

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tora-victoria
14 Jan 2022

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Lauloque

You do need to be able to render even when not connected to an output, we often need that when having multiple layers or scenes in the node tree.

A warning should definitely be there, and for both composite and file output nodes.