Render Passes

[CIM]

The Render Passes (http://www.technolumiere.com/software/renderpasses.html) plugin may help out since Maya's built-in support for render passes is so poor. It requires some basic MEL knowledge, though.

Not that it matters now, but I'm (very slowly) working on a render pass manager similar to XSI's.

[incubism]

Hey there.
i am an XSI guy trying to get Maya to render passes and would be interested in knowing how you go setting this up....
cheers

[ericlo]

HI

:wise: I want to use renderpass v1.11 for maya 6 ! I loaded to plugins manager !
But i hadn't saw "Renderpass" in main meun. Why?

:bounce: THANK Urs

[incubism]

You can't have set it up properly,
have just done the same here and it works a treat.
(thanks Andrew Chapman)
I'd go back and try again if I was you.
Did you change the env var.?

[ericlo]

:thumbsup: Thank urs!

:buttrock: i knew what are happen! Becauce i haven't replace new maya.env!
I should that wirte some path to "maya.env" follow :

MAYA_SCRIPT_PATH = %MAYA_LOCATION%\add_plugins\RenderPasses
MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH = %MAYA_LOCATION%\add_plugins\RenderPasses\win32\6.0

(Notes : i created "add_plugins\" in maya program folder)

Now ! i can tried this great plugins ! Very amazing !
before i think this function only on XSI . but i must improve my MELs Skill !

:bounce: Special Thank Andrew Chapman (Senior Technical Director - Framestore CFC)

[Splin]

Thank you CIM, that plug seems to be really neat!

[JustLearning]

Hello. Im trying to render shadows seperately with Mental Ray. I was looking at ur references to RenderPass for Maya and was wondering if rendering in passes is the same with Mental Ray as it is with regular Maya Software? do i need to set up lights with shadows a certain way? Im basically working with some HDRI and I want the ground plane to reflect text and be whiter, but without reflecting the complex HDRI image. So im trying to render the shadows, text, and ground planes seperately so I can composite seperately. Any help is greatly apprecciated.

[incubism]

When it comes to passes I personaly have an anything goes attitude.
Within XSI you have a passes section where you can have as many passes as you want and control everything with partitions.
It is a bit of a problem with the Maya software that you don't have the same straightforward workflow.
Hence the below interest in the Render passes add on mentioned below.
You can have a light in your scene that's only purpose is to produce shadows, so you can hide everything else except for what you want to cast shadows and have a shadow receiving object with your Surface Shader.
But I am a new Maya user.....
just trowing in my 2 cents.
The Learning Maya 6 Rendering book is a great tool....
I'm working through that at the moment,
the compositing side in relation to Render Passes is a bit thin though,..
It's no wonder they didn't break their scenes up for LOTR..

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