CGTalk - VRay .rla or .rpf

ericlevy

02-22-2003, 09:58 PM

how come vray free crashes when i render out .rla or .rpf with zdepth? are there any other ways to embed zdepth information into my files by rendering with vray free? i want to do Depth of Field in After Effects instead of rendering it with VRay...any other suggestions?

-eric

uday

02-23-2003, 08:25 AM

try posting this on the Vray forum.
I saw that ur message has been read 28 times and no replies.
you might get better luck there.
;)

gaggle

02-23-2003, 10:46 PM

Oh boy.

I strongly suggest rendering the depth-channel into a seperate file using Render Elements (or whatever equivalent vRay comes with), because as far as I know .rpf doesn't anti-alias it's depthbuffer. Which makes it somewhat.. er.. useless?

You'll have to manually set the min and max values with the one built into MAXs "render elements" though. Not such a big deal though.

Oh, and if vRay is not equipped with proper element-rendering (I've never tried vRay) you can easily do a second pass where you swap back to the default scanline. Hooray.

Reality3D

02-23-2003, 11:04 PM

Depth buffer shouldn't be antialiased !

gaggle

02-23-2003, 11:33 PM

Oh.

Back to the ol' testing-board I go then :)

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