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  • render reflections separately

    Posted by Jeremy Paul on March 1, 2017 at 10:51 am

    I am trying to render a computer with the use of multi-pass. The goal is to render reflection and specular in a separate png sequence so that I can overlay it on top of image I will put on computers screen.

    When I render using render queue, I only get one png file with the whole project inside it. I was hoping for separate images, each corresponding to specular and reflection. If I go to Picture Viewer, I can indeed see the multiple passes.

    What I did so far: in render settings I checked reflection and specular and tried different options in Separate materials, Separate Layers and Mode.
    I feel like that I am missing something obvious here. Any idea what?

    Jim Scott replied 9 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Jim Scott

    March 2, 2017 at 3:19 am

    Render Settings > Save > Multi-Pass Image > Multi-Layer File – uncheck this box and you should get individual image files for each pass you have set up. Enabling that option, and selecting the Photoshop (PSD) format, will give you a multi-layer file that will open in Photoshop with all the passes as layers.

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