• Maxon Cinema 4D

  assigning object buffer to visible light

  Posted by Sam Young on February 16, 2011 at 9:16 am

  i want to be able to use the visible light from a light object in C4D as a luma matte for a video clip in after effects. is there a way to assign an object buffer to the light from a light object?

  i tried rendering the light object as a separate pass in a multi-pass render, but that separate pass is translated as a light layer in after effects that does not show the visible cone of light and only where the light lands on another layer. so that didn’t work.

  i tried assigning a compositing tag to a light object in C4D, but that didn’t work because the light object itself is buffered, not the light from the object.

  i’m stumped.
  help?

  i’m using C4D R12

  thanks in advance, videogeeks

  Denys Glagoliev replied 6 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  February 16, 2011 at 3:53 pm

  I think you want to render out an atmosphere pass, which should capture the visible light.
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  Sam Young

  February 16, 2011 at 7:02 pm

  i’ll give that a try. thanks, adam!
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  Denys Glagoliev

  December 14, 2019 at 9:54 am

  Hello, there in Multipass tab in render Settings tru to apply Material Luminance

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