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Gibbz
02-17-2009, 11:00 PM
Im trying to render out depth with no AA but i cannot get it to work!


render camera:mCamera vfb:false renderElementBitmaps:&mRenderMaps renderMultiPassEffects:true renderElements:true shadows:false renderhiddenobjects:false useRadiosity:false outputSize:[mSize,mSize] progressbar:false quiet:true mapping:false force2sided:true autoReflect:false renderhiddenobjects:false renderatmosphericeffects:false --antialiasing:false


If i uncomment antialiasing:false i get a blank depth map :(
ZeBoxx2
02-18-2009, 01:06 AM
just grab the z-buffer data (gbuffers) then?

if you don't need to do this programmatically, have a peek at the File Output render effect - that can write Z-Depth out to a greyscale image.
Gibbz
02-18-2009, 01:55 AM
i need to do this via maxscript as i use the depthmap in the script and throw it away when done.
ZeBoxx2
02-18-2009, 02:48 AM
alright.. add "channels:#(#zDepth)" to your render() call. Take the result of that render call, and use getChannelAsMask or getChannel functions to get the z-depth values out of the z-depth g-buffer; that should certainly do the trick.

Still odd that the scanline renderer simply outputs null data when anti-aliasing is off, though
Gibbz
02-18-2009, 04:48 AM
ok ill give that a shot :)
ZeBoxx2
02-18-2009, 01:33 PM
just a minor, but important, correction - "channels:zDepth" should be "channels:#(#zDepth"); see also the "Controlling the renderer" topic which details the render() call.
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