Questions tagged [viewlayers]
"Renders can be separated into layers, to composite them back together afterwards." (2.90) View Layers are also used to control visibility of objects in the 3D Viewport. Use this tag for any questions related to separate view layers used in renders.
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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 update the ViewLayer without warnings?
I want to update the view layer but I am getting this warning.
Should I ignore it or handle it, How?
related to: How to hide/unhide objects in a particular ViewLayer?
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How to hide/unhide objects in a particular ViewLayer?
I am trying to hide/unhide objects in a particular ViewLayer but it's hiding in the current view layer only.
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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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Switch main viewlayers during render
I have a scene with a lot of different cameras and camera angles and I used the viewlayers to quickly show or hide objects depending of what these cameras should render. It was much quicker than ...
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Switching layer views according to main cameras
how can I tie the view layer used for the rendering to the main camera?
Here's more context. I am making a video for a boardgame with multiple camera angles and various game cards/figurines settings ...
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Can "Exclude from View" be kept disabled during an append? Can it be done with Python?
This is a minor thing, but I was curious if this was possible.
I have generated a character rig that looks like this in the outliner. Notice the wgt folder is "disabled" and its contents are ...
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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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Render Glossy indirect and Shadow pass without the use of ViewLayers
I'm wondering if there exists a solution that allows you to render the Shadow Pass and Glossy Indirect pass in the same render/view layer, on the same plane and still have a transparent background.
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Scenes vs. View Layers - What's the Difference?
I'm still having a hard time understanding the difference between Scene and View Layers. Would anyone mind explaining the difference, and what are the use case scenarios for one over the other?
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Link View Layer to a specific camera (in Blender)
is it possible to link a View Layer to a specific camera?
So I have different Cameras (for different shots) in my scene and also different view layers, that some objects are only visible, in specific ...
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Force curves to appear in front of mesh
Fairly new so I'm playing around with OBJ mesh imports from SketchUp and Rhino. When I bring in an object, I would also like these lines to display. So, I import them as well in the form of curves, ...
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how to render scene in blender with layer and volumetric atmosphere
I have a problem with rendering a scene correctly using layers. When I render it as a whole everything is fine.
When I use layers I have a problem with volumetric atmosphere which obscures everything ...
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Custom properties in shaders zeroed out when I make a copy of the view layer
I am working on a complex scene with many different starships in it. This is a recreation of an old PC game poster, and since each starship was lit in a bit different way, my idea was to have each ...
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How to speed up hiding thousands of objects
I need a quick way to hide thousands of objects in the view layer via python. I have tried running the following code, but it takes 10 seconds to run with 10,000 objects:
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