L pass, vanilla or RPManager

#1

I hope max includes a real pass system like the one in XSI one day. Until that day anyone can advise me about the best pass manager right now?

I know those 3: L pass, Vanilla Pass Manager and RPManager.

thank you. (I’m using Vray)

#2

We use RPM and Vray in our pipeline, I’ve never used the other two but RPM is defiantly a life saver.Cant imagine having to submitting passes with out it.You can down load the full version and request a Personal license for free (limit to two passes) and try it out for your self.

#3

Yeah, we use RPM here too with vray in our pipeline. Its definitely not renderer specific. To start with it was daunting, but I cant imagine working without it now. It handles projects very well and once you understand it, its really useful.

Also I think its fairly cheep for a license? Something like $100 bucks or something? I may be wrong though. And has a really good wiki type online help file, and quick email response from the designer.

#4

thanks all,

I think that’s the one that looks the more production proven. I will give it a try first.

#5

I use rpmanager as well. We have so many licenses, that we were basically given a site license with unlimited licenses. It can be finicky at times, especially as a project grows and the number of passes grows also, but as I’m always telling my boss: The alternative, would just be unbearable.

#6

Is it possible the material override function doesn’t work with mental ray?

Which is the usual way to use material override in RPManager. Maybe I’m doing something wrong…

#7

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