Rendering at Wireframe resolution

[Brian Jones]

[CaptainMench] “I need to keep working timing and placement of CG elements and would like to know (there must be) a reference to rendering out wireframe models or block models?”

Render/Make Preview – you can render as the editor with that (so whatever your editor window is set to show it will render that level of detail).

[CaptainMench] “Also — another point to the manual… rendering out multiple passes… is there a way to render out specific elements into different files or channels? I need to composite each item on it’s own.”

Render Settings/Multi-Pass – add whatever channels you want, render to you favorite format.

[Adam Trachtenberg]

[Brian Jones] “[CaptainMench] “Also — another point to the manual… rendering out multiple passes… is there a way to render out specific elements into different files or channels? I need to composite each item on it’s own.”

Render Settings/Multi-Pass – add whatever channels you want, render to you favorite format.”

More specifically, you have to give your objects compositing tags and specify an object buffer channel in the tag. Then in multipass you have to add an object buffer pass for each object, indicating the number(s) you assigned in the compositing tag. This will give you a separate alpha for the object which you can use to composite it out in post.

[Brian Jones]

thanks Adam 🙂

[Captain Mench]

Thanks a bunch!! That worked great!

Now —

About the render preview… didn’t work ..

1) Ended up with an error message about the file preview.mov being used by movie something … hmm.

2) Not sure Edit Mode will be what I want. Seems there are two options… full and edit. Edit gives me gray stuff. I would like a minimum (anamatic) type export that is quick render so I can go back and forth to Shake to make sure the locations are correct. I marked the set, but not good enough for my tracker software.

CaptM

[Brian Jones]

[CaptainMench] ” Ended up with an error message about the file preview.mov being used by movie something”

probably because you rendered a preview, watched it and it’s still open in Quicktime. Close it and the next will render (since it always saves previews to the same place)

[Captain Mench]

No — thanks… I’m beyond that for needing help when asking questions. I HONESTLY do appreciate the answer… and you’d have no way of knowing my skill levels so I’m not mad about your answer. But yes, I’ve been there and done that too. I’ll trash the preview.mov file that it generates… I’ll make sure QT is off… even restarting the whole computer doesn’t help. Next step is a re-install… but hoping it won’t get to that.

Thanks again,

CaptM

[Tristan Waldroop]

Hi Captain. this is from years ago but I’m wondering if you ever solved your problem. I’m running C4D 11.5 and am getting this error as well. Did you have to reinstall?