Ability to Render Specific Passes Without Rendering the Beauty
Hi guys,
During production I noticed that the Nuke compositors asked for an additional render pass. In the current Blender there is no method of just rendering the emission or alpha or ID passes.
Could there be an option to just render certain pass?
That would be awesome!
Gracias, danke ,thanks, spasibo, bedankt!
Beau
3 Comments
If you need a technical pass only (like Z or normal), you can switch off lamps and override the renderpass material with a black diffuse shader. Have you try this?
In most cases (AFAIK) many of the other passes are derived from data generated in the combined render... so without a heavy redesign of the backend, my guess is that it would not be all that easy to enable the ability to render a derived pass all on its own.
EEVEE is great for this. Switch to EEVEE render out your passes and throw away the beauty pass or any other pass that requires raytracing. You can do 128 sample AA which should be plenty for the three passes you listed. If not, as dddjef says, use an override material.