Ton : My bad for calling it better or whatever, I'm sorry that's all you understood and remember from my mail, in which I tried to explain each point of the current process and how I "wish" it to be !
But maybe the best way to understand it is if you try to render each pass into different image sequence (whatever format : png, jpg,tga, tiff, ...) and see how long the process is and how it would slow down the render time. If you do so, you'll see that the only way to do it is manually by hand via the compositor. You actually told me the reason why we have openEXR & MultiLayer (exr) is because some third party software do not support Multilayer properly. That doesn't mean the user wouldn't like to have all his passes seperated. So my proposal was for Blender to render 1 "image sequence" by passes out of the box without going through the trouble of compositor, and this only in case the user didn't choose a multiLayer format. Basically assuming that if he didn't setup the compositor, selected a few passes to render and select a format as PNG for example, then it means he wants 1 sequences by passes in a PNG format saved on his harddrive (that why I suggested a path naming convention as well). And same goes for multiple RenderLayers. I honestly don't know how to explain it more clearly I'm sorry :'( F. 2012/1/17 gespert...@gmail.com <gespert...@gmail.com> > Ton: > I think he's talking about how tedious is to output individual passes > as image sequences using file-output nodes. > > For instance, storing 5 passes to tga sequences requires you to add 5 > file-output nodes, set them up with the right path, and it still > requires the presence of a composite node in order to save animation. > That could be simplified and the composite node shoudn't be required > if file-output nodes are used. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- ____________________ François Tarlier www.francois-tarlier.com www.linkedin.com/in/francoistarlier _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers