Render Pass Order?

[visualboo]

Not to my knowledge.

You could try adding a number in front of the pass name.

1_beauty
2_spec
3_shadow
4_ao
5_reflection

[dwigfor]

Is there a way to only render a couple of the passes? Options are only for All or Current..

[Sbowling]

Is there a way to only render a couple of the passes? Options are only for All or Current..

That was going to be my next question. :)

[withanar]

Filter your explorer to passes, then select only the passes you want to render.
Render current pass should then render all of the ones in your selection.

[dwigfor]

Thanks Brad.

[leigh]

Is there a way to control which order render passes are rendered in? I've searched on this, but can't find any info.

Thanks!

I was rather curious as to why you asked this? Why would you want to control which order the passes are rendered? :curious: Is it so you can render the more important ones (like diffuse) first?

[CoolCalb]

what I do is a little copy/paste script.

switch the script editor to VB, clear the history pane,
switch to the first pass you wish to render, copy/paste the command from the history pane,
into the script editor, hit <enter>
add a line : RenderPass
switch to the next pass, copy/paste the command from the histury pane to the scipt editor,
add another : RenderPass

when your'e done, run the script... :)

[smaug]

there is a tool in the netview called jbj renderpas tools.

with it you can choose which passes you want to rener and say render selected passes.

in v5 there is also a reorder tools in the explorer you can use it to reorder your passes.

[Atyss]

I was rather curious as to why you asked this? Why would you want to control which order the passes are rendered? :curious: Is it so you can render the more important ones (like diffuse) first?

Actually I tend to do the opposite. Generally by the "most important ones" I think "the toughest ones", like beauty passes and the likes. So I prefer to let go the easy ones first, so if something happens during the toughest ones, the easiest are still done. Controlling pass order really is a nice thing.


Cheers
Bernard

[Sbowling]

Thanks for all the replies everyone. :thumbsup:

I was rather curious as to why you asked this? Why would you want to control which order the passes are rendered? :curious: Is it so you can render the more important ones (like diffuse) first?

I was working on a scene on a tight deadline, and rendered it out without motionblur. Once I had a passable scene rendered out, I wanted to render it out overnight with motion blur. I could get away without any motion blur on the shadow and refletion passes (I'm not sure motion blur would even affect these passes), but I wanted to make sure that the main passes would get rendered first and be done by time I got to work the next day.

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