Depth Map Render

[alexx]

always remember that if you render uot the z-depth image as a tiff or whatever yuo can get 16 bit at its best.. compared to floating point accuracy in a real z channel

if that is ok for you, you can check out the script i did some time ago.
it takes the near and far clipping planes from the camera to write out a 16 bit IFF depth file..

fake depth (http://bigott.gmxhome.de/scripts/createFakeDepth.mel )

cheers

alexx

and please be sure to read the header of the script, since it will overwrite stuff in your scene.. so be sure not to work with it without a backup of your scene

[lazlow69]

Thank you kindly for the MEL script option. I was wondering, however, if there is a simple way to do it through maya? I see sometimes a demonstration or tutorial in which one of the example images is a depth render (although it is generally just used as an example to illustrate what it's function is.) Are those images the product of the use of a mel, or simply a setting within render globals?

Thanks
:)

[alexx]

this mel script does nothing but putting together shaders and lighting that produce the wanted effect. there is no click and go solution in maya...

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