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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Output Resolution Increase Changes Composited Background to Black
I'm trying to render (in cycles, cuda) a single object (3m faces) with a ground plane (set to shadow catcher), both on separate render layers. My goal is to create a nice portfolio render with a solid ...
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Material Preview - OK / Render Preview - Black and White
I was working in a scene and, suddenly, all the Render preview and render itself got Black/white (no shades at all).
Material Preview continues ok, it happens only on render. For both Evee and Cycles....
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How do I make a certain render layer a "Background" render layer?
When you do a VFX scene and click the button "setup tracking scene", it automatically makes 2 render layers: a "Foreground", and a "Background" render layer. And the ...
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Camera locations not updating before render (Python)
I am updating the camera position and rendering frames 1 at a time, however, for the render the camera position is not changing
bpy.context.view_layer.update()
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I've checked the ...
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Python bpy 2.8 render directly to matrix/array
I'm new to working with both Blender and bpy, and I'm trying to render directly into Python. Best case, I could render directly from bpy 2.82 into a byte stream or numpy matrix.
I've been trying to ...
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How can color and alpha channels differ in the Image Editor?
I'm rendering with composition, my goal is to isolate an object, its shadow, its reflection and the background in order to be able to adjust the background image/color, and the intensity of the shadow ...
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VFX Motion Tracking: "Render Layers" of foreground/background empty
I'm new in Blender 3.1.2.
However, I've successfully done some VFX motion tracking projects, where I basically redo all the steps from certain YouTube tutorials.
Now I'm stuck at my latest "...
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View Layer versus Render Layer: What's the difference?
I'm learning how to separate renders into layers, which are then combined in the Compositor. However, in researching the literature I see references to View Layers and Render Layers. It seems they ...
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How to put a background onto its own Render Layer?
I'm working with a 3rd-party product that allows you to create custom skies via Blender's World environment. The documentation states:
"To render fast you can separate the background on a render ...
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How can we render an object including his material name?
I need to render an object in a different material, @FFeller, helped me with the index material geometry node, which allowed me to automate the rendering. But, in the naming the rendered images, didn’...
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View Layers Explained to the Simple Minded, Like Myself
Although I've been learning Blender for six months I've only just come across the idea of View Layers and rendering separate layers.
You know how it goes; you want to learn 3D so you attack the ...
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How can I render an object in a different material, each one in a separate image?
I need to automate the rendering in order to show the variety of materials, of each component of my object. So I could use them to create a customization file.
I used a Compositing Nodetree to render ...
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How to control export outputs when working with the compositor and render layers
I was getting into render layers and compositing recently. I was intrigued by how much structure I can give my export process and I had a vision of how I can make my export workflow a lot more ...
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Eevee : Render Layer Emit pass rendering black
my emit(emission) render layer outputs black even though I have objects with materials on them that use emission surface. I can see the emission working in the Image output, but nothing in the emit ...
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batch render + compositing with multiple scenes -> unable to open display?
I am trying to render an image which uses a very specific background, and for that, I have a scene with the object I want rendered on a transparent (film) background + another scene with the ...
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Disable Object's Camera Rendering for one Render Layer only
I have a scene with two objects, one glowing and other semi-glossy. I want to composite the render, so I created render layers, one for glowing object and one for glossy one. Then, I immediately ...
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How to change the color of multiple materials at once?
I bought a model of a dinosaur skeleton on turbosquid that consists of hundreds of pieces. Although the color of all the bones looks the same, the bones have many different materials. I guess the ...
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Can I render out different passes at one time?
I want to render out 1 pass and not the other in my scene, but when I try to do that, blender renders out both passes at once.
Is there a way to disable some render passes so I can render single one ...
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Automatic/Procedural multi-layers for rendering
I was wondering, is there a way to proceduraly create a certain amount of different layers for rendering ? (by using the compositing tab maybe, or any node add-on)
It would be useful to render scenes ...
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How do I render different things in different render layers?
I have an earth model with an atmosphere model around it. I want to render the earth in one render layer, and the atmosphere on another render layer. How do I set the atmosphere to render in the ...
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Is there a “Film -> Transparent” Layer-specific option?
I know about the Transparent setting that makes a scene render with the background as transparent, but I’d like to have a layer-specific version of this option for single scene compositing. Does such ...
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How to make foreground objects mask out the background, while not being rendered?
Let's say I have a character and some columns in the foreground. I need to render (eevee) only the character in such a way that if he goes behind the column he is erased by its shape (disappear behind ...
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How to turn off denoising for certain objects? (UPBGE)
Is it possible to have Viewport Denoising ON in the "Render Properties" panel, but have it OFF for certain objects? I heard this may be possible using layers but I am not sure how to do it. ...
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Final render isn't showing composite background color
I'm following Blender Guru's donut tutorial and this is my first go at 3D rendering. I have a problem I can't seem to solve. I created a background color for my donut in compositing, and I can see it ...
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Render random combination of number of layers
I’ve been looking hard for this and I haven’t really found a solution for my wishes. I’m not calling it a ‘problem’ because I feel like what I am trying to achieve could be fairly easy to one of the ...
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Render output comes out as a blank png even though the render result (F1) comes out perfectly
I have two main render layers that I bring together using a mix node at 50% fac. I am compositing the two layers together however the output comes out blank even though the preview comes out correct. ...
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Subsurface color disappeared from the Render Layers after Blender upgrade. Does it exist in 2.93?
So I upgraded blender from 2.82 to 2.93, and a render layer called "SubsurfaceCol" has disappeared from the Eevee render layers.
This layer appears when a material with subsurface radios is ...
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Disable object rendering "Camera" option per scene/layer
I like to create a batch rendering from my scene while having an object as the background which will be present on all the renders and the other objects which I like to have visible per each render. ...
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Holdout like error in renders affecting particle emission layer only
having a bit of a strange one and I've been through everything I can think of to try and identify a cause.
Ive got a render which outputs perfectly for 98%. Im seeing two strange issues which I cant ...
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How to render geometric normals?
When we import a mesh into Blender, we can get a lot of information, and normal is one of the properties.
The Normal in ...
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help with gloss reflections!
I'm in dire need of some help here, as you can see in the second photo both, the car and the light that illuminate it, reflect on the ground plane I added.
I'd need to keep the car's reflection only ...
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World node output to compositing?
I have an image as "World Environmental Equirectangular map".
I also have object meshes in separated Render layers.
How can I have the "World Environmental Equirectangular map" ...
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Composite multiple cameras in one image
I need to create a workflow where I can composite 13 cameras together in a file, all filming from different angles in a scene, with different resolutions for each.
I already created 13 seperated scene,...
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View layers n00b: holdout & indirect - no holdout, objects, objects still visible
I'm fiddling with view layers for the first time ever.
Got a large Archviz project, organized in collections on several view layers.
My understanding is as follows:
To render out the streets and ...
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How do I prevent a render layer from rendering a composite image
Everything renders fine but I end up rendering the scene twice. What I want is only the first render layer “view layer” to render the entire scene which it does. But the second render layer “flower” I ...
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Eevee cannot finish a render [closed]
Eevee just won't render my project. I have 2 Terrains in the scene with 6 subsurf divisions and a displacement modifier with image texture for the shape of the terrain and I have 3 nebulae as a ...
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Light Linking With View Layers and Refractive Object
I want to make an area light's specularity affect only one object in the scene. Basically I want the exact same image as below, but without the area lights reflection. I want the reflection of the ...
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Is there any way to not overwrite when I re-render ? Without changing the prefix everytime manually?
I just want to output new renders every time i render rather than those previous one being overwritten - again, without changing the prefix itself !
So eg : Render001-Normal becomes Render002-normal ...
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Final Render is glitchy and not what I see in Camera Viewport
I'm a noob here so please be easy on me. I've searched around the forums with no answers to my problem that I could find. I've spent quite a long time (because I'm a noob) getting this to look the way ...
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Can't save a single pass from an OpenEXR MutiLayer file
So, I'll try to make it as clear as possible but I just started working with OpenEXR MultiLayer Output and I might miss some important info. Important to know I render with Cycles.
I'm working with an ...
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Not able to render properly
I am trying to learn blender, and I've been doing a fun project based on youtube video last time. I've spend good bit of time on it but I seems to can't Render it properly
This is the project
And ...
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Body mesh is rendering over clothes mesh when duplicating/mirroring clothes mesh
When editing this model. I duplicated the shoe on the right foot and mirrored it to the left foot. I also duplicated the tights on the left leg and mirrored it to the right leg. It seems that the ...
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Generate 3D Profile of Space Occupied by Moving Closed Objects
The image below illustrates a model of six rigid links connected by six revolute joints. I've written a Python script to make the mechanism articulate around its joints and move relative to its fixed ...
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How to set up render layers for large project
I am working on my biggest project yet, it’s a video of the Falcon 9 rocket launching and landing from a launch pad. It’s around 4500 frames long. How would a professional animator split up the ...
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How do you get 2 render layers from an exr file?
I am compositing a scene with 2 render layers. I saved it as an image sequence of EXR files so that I can close the program. However, after compositing, the Exr doesnt keep data from separate render ...
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The smoke domain is completely filled with smoke
The domain is filled with smoke before the simulation started.
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How to render objects only with their materials diffuse color or without lighting
I am currently trying to write a python script with bpy and Blender 2.9 to render images of a couple of thousand wavefront objects with material information. I only need the "true colors" of ...
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How to disable Background layer rendering?
I’ve done tracking of the footage, and I’ve setup the tracking scene.
As you probably know, once you setup the tracking scene, Blender automatically creates two “Render Layers” nodes in the compositor....
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How do i add the render layers node? its not there at all. In fact there are no nodes
How do i add the render layers node? its not there at all. In fact there are no nodes
As you can see there is literally no nodes even though i zoomed out a lot of times.
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Render a scene twice but once it renders with an extra object
Hi i have a scene with a kitchen and i am using the sky texture and a large volume to create godrays, except to make the scene less noisy i am rendering it twice with two identical scenes but one has ...
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