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Rendering Environment pass without Combined pass in Cycles

Using Cycles,I have a scene with Volume Scatter shader connected to World Background and an HDR image connected to the surface, Rendering the scene while checking Environment pass is giving me a nice ...
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What causes this mist pass glitch?

The problem, and what I've tried so far From the screen shot you can see that sky-blue from the mist color is leaking through the trees due to white spots that are occurring in the mist pass on the ...
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Cryptomatte doesnt output nice clean edges

Is there any way i can have cleaner edges out of the cryptomatte image output ? The outline is just not clean enough.
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Z depth pass in Cycles, rendering white [duplicate]

Using Cycles as a render engine, I assigned an empty as a camera Track To target, and as the focus target in Depth of Field, yet rendering the scene, the depth pass is rendering all white, as if there'...
Georges D's user avatar
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Difference between a mist pass and a normalized z-buffer?

In Cycles there are two different render passes which seem to give some kind of depth information: the Mist pass and the Z-Buffer pass. I know that the z-buffer gives the actual distance (thus ...
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How do I stop the Compositor Output Node from overwriting my images on each new render?

Using the compositor node setup above, when I hit F12, it makes a new pass and the rendered images are automatically saved. The problem is that the new render erases the previous one that was saved in ...
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Object won't show in render. None of the suggested solves I've found have helped

I've tried to render my scene but there's an object that won't show up. I've checked the camera, I've checked the visibility, it isn't hidden and it's showing in the viewport. I feel like I've opened ...
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Diffuse indirect pass shows part of texture

Trying to save "DiffInd" pass of composition layer render pass as image. But I see part of the object texture being rendered. Attached is the texture image and Render pass composition shader....
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Cryptomatte - Clean edges

blender people, please, does exist a solution to make a clean render pass for ID colors - materials? I want to achieve a same solution like in VRAY - material ID. After that, I want to import it in ...
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To what degree does Cycles' sample level impact other passes?

Can equally useful AO, Z, mist, speed and other non-beauty passes be generated at lower sample rates compared to those rates needed for beauty passes? How about ObjectID mask passes?
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Mist pass looks noisy

I have a following problem: when I render my final image with mist pass, the mist pass itself becomes noisy, see in these images: Mist pass combined in image: Mist Pass itself: Could the problem be ...
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Render pass that output center of object of each pixel

I am looking to create a render pass that takes a scene and outputs, for each pixel, the 3D world coordinate of the center of the object to which that pixel belongs. In other words, all pixels that ...
Moos Hueting's user avatar
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How to achieve a flat colored render pass from material id/index for masking

I'm trying to get a render pass that splits all different materials into flat shaded objects (like material id in 3ds max) with anti aliasing. The output colors aren't important. (random colors are ...
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Blender render passes

If you set up render layers in blender and you have them all ticked wouldn't blender render all of those layer for you all at once one after the other with all the associated maps that have been ...
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How to render depth pass with alpha channel transparency in cycles?

I have a 3D object in the empty scene. I can click on the "transparent" checkbox to make a render with a transparent background. How can I render depth (or any other) pass with transparent background ...
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