Paint Effects z Depth

[daddyo]

you can get a depth pass in Paintfx canvas mode... but that's for a still only and uses its own z buffer... it can be of use if you're comping a still, i suppose...

I tried to make use of it in animation, and there's just no way. Best thing to do would be to beg autodesk to improve the paintFX toolset so that it uses the same z-buffer as everything else. Also, being able to assign any shaders to the paint fx would allow you to make passes like depth, vector, etc...

I tried different ways to get a useful depth pass from paint fx, and the only thing I managed to get was by turning my paint fx into animated cards with transparency, and rendering a pass with a z-depth shader I made... but that was for background vegetation...

[Atwooki]

This might be worth a look at:

http://www.highend3d.com/maya/downloads/mel_scripts/rendering/misc/3815.html

Haven't tested myself :shrug:

Chris

[tom.hanks]

Thank you very much guys I´ll try your sugestion and I´ll post what I got later.

[rollmops]

Did you try simply to render your pfx with:


a camera output setting Depht ON
globals RGB+ alpha+Zdepht
image format supporting Z like maya IFF

To make it macth with other layers first turn autoClipping camera OFF and adjust the same near and far clipping for all leyers to render.

[tom.hanks]

Thanks for the help:thumbsup:
But about iff files with z channel i find it a little difficult to work with it, because it has no anti-alias so I am managing to create a render layer to produce this channel as a tif file, using a second stroke applied to my curves and converting them to poly just to this layer, so this way I can produce de Zdepth with Maya´s preset z channel render layer, it worked well, but even so I had to convert to poly.
Sorry the poor english

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