lighting pass?

[ilasolomon]

Is lighting pass different from Render pass? what's that exactly?
if you meant Specular/diffuse/shadow seperated rendering then the answer is YES, max scanline renderer supports it.

[Mauritius]

Diffuse illumination usually is always coupled with diffuse color.
Otherwise you could of course only render out plain light color (assuming white objects) and a no-shading diffuse color pass that has then to be multiplied with the former pass in comp. The advance would be that you could color-correct lights and diffuse color independent from each other before multiplying.

Tell your boss though that someone will have to write a shader or modify an exisiting shader to support this via output variables (see http://www.animallogic.com/research/maxman/onlinedocs/RenderDialogs/ExtraOutputChannels.html).
Plain buying a RMan compliant renderer -- like e.g. PRMan -- is only half of the story.

Blatant advertising: I can be hired (offsite) to help you with this stuff.:buttrock:

Cheers,

.mm

[D-Wang]

ah yes,

Thanks ila_solomon, yea it was render pass i wanted. Since this was the first time i had to do such a thing i wasn't sure what it was actually called. I just checked out render pass in max's user reference and its exactly what I was looking for. :applause: :thumbsup:

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