Questions tagged [render-layers]
Render layers are used to separate pieces of a scene for rendering. Those layers can then be treated differently in the compositor.
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Disabling HDRI only for a specific render layer
I am working on an alien planet landscape still image with planets/moons in the background. For this, my scene is divided into 2 render layers and I need very different lighting for each of them.
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How to get reflection pass when there's no light on the scene
Here's my blend file :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FDAkvG0ZTkOrBIlyMiR9AsOCbOOMysue/view?usp=sharing
There's no light - only use default world lighting.
I combine 2 render layers using compositor ...
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Object flags per render Layer and multi renderLayer workflows
I have been building my own pipeline on top of Blender for a few months to make my own short film and am at a point where I think I need to take a real deep dive into blender dev. I come from a vfx ...
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Holdout and Alpha White Edges
I was wondering how I'd go about getting rid of the edges not matching in this scene. I'm using two scenes.
The outer shell that has a hole with a holdout material inset for one of the faces
The ...
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Why is my view layer rendering as nothing?
I'm trying to render out some view layers to put into the compositor. Most of them rendered perfectly fine, however the one called 'ocean' renders gray nothing, despite the presence of lights and the ...
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How to automatically select the current ViewLayer in Compositing
Is there a way to automatically select the active ViewLayer in the "Render Layers" node?
Thank you.
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Fire simulation casts light with weird holes/shadows in it. How can I fix this?
This project uses a shadow catcher to catch light and shadows and is composited onto my footage. I'm using adaptive domain (though I tried a low res bake with no adaptive domain, that just killed any ...
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How can I label the faces of a mesh so that they remain labelled after I UV unwrap the mesh?
I have been trying to figure this out from these posts:
Storing Face Indices in Data Arrays
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60713817/how-to-get-data-and-edit-it-on-uv-map-edges
How to get data and ...
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The colors don't appear correctly when I append a grease pencil animation into another file
I just started using blender for a school project. I downloaded brushes and used them in my grease pencil animation. It looks fine on my screen (first photo) but when I append it into another file, it ...
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How to render only one object, that is still affected by the volumetric and lights in Eevee?
I made a background and placed an image plane, whith the keyed out footage of a musician into the scene. I now want to only render out the musician (image plane) in Eevee. I made it to render (while ...
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Give layer scenes their own color overlay, but keep the hireachy of whats in front and in the back
I have this example scene with Cubes, Cylinders and Spheres, split into 3 different layer scenes.
I split them up so I in the Compositing can give the different objects a specific color overlay.
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not showing up in animation render [duplicate]
I have all this animation and audio, so when I render the animation, it does not show up, completely blank. Does anyone know how to fix this error?
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Using file output node results in 2 images being saved
I am rendering denoised render passes using the openEXR Multilayer format.
(The default output does not save the denoised passes)
So right now I take each pass and plug it into a denoise node. And ...
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Setting Smoke volumes to indirect only
I have a scene where I have a smoke simulation surrounding an object. I would like to render the scene in layers so I can composite the final shot in After effects.
I can put the smoke and object in ...
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How do I over lap three or more render layers in the compositor?
I'm trying to place three images on top of each other using the compositor. I don't really know how to do it, I think I could use the alpha over approach but I'd need to use the alphas of both the ...
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