I believe you can also create multichannel exr's in Vray, as well. You are only restricted to separate passes, in mentalray, in Softimage.
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Stephen Davidson <magic...@bellsouth.net>wrote: > Sorry, I misread your original question. It is not possible to have a > SINGLE mult-ipass EXR > file, in standard Softimage, only individual EXR file for each pass. > > You can do this in Softimage, with Arnold plugin: > https://support.solidangle.com/display/SItoAUG/Multi-Layer+EXR > > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Siew Yi Liang <soni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Stephen: >> >> I believe that's how I set my scene up; however, whenever I render, I'm >> still getting each EXR pass as a separate file instead of one multichannel >> EXR...? >> >> http://i.imgur.com/NNAnloG.png >> >> I tried setting the filename output to be just [Pass] without the >> [Framebuffer] token, but that just resulted in the last pass being what was >> written to the EXR. >> >> Is there something else I'm missing here? I'm on XSI 2013 SP1 at home, >> but I tried 2014 at school and ran into the same problem as well, so I >> don't think that's the issue... >> >> Yours sincerely, >> Siew Yi Liang >> >> On 4/18/2014 7:06 AM, Stephen Davidson wrote: >> >> yes... still there. >> define the render channel (ambient, specular, etc.), then change the >> format to EXR >> >> look here: >> >> http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/renderchannels_RenderingBuiltInandPresetChannels.htm#Rgu19596 >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Siew Yi Liang <soni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all: >>> >>> So I'm wrapping up a little short animation test in XSI, and I haven't >>> touched the default MR renderer in it for quite awhile...was wondering if >>> there was actually a way to now render multichannel EXRs natively with >>> mental ray shaders? I tried searching around for the old ctrl_pass shaders >>> thingy, but couldn't find it anywhere. (I don't have access to VRay at >>> home, which is why I'm asking =\ ) But it seems that looking through the >>> docs there still isn't any mention about it... >>> >>> -- >>> Yours sincerely, >>> Siew Yi Liang >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> Best Regards, >> * Stephen P. Davidson* >> >> *(954) 552-7956 <%28954%29%20552-7956> * >> sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com >> >> *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* >> >> >> - Arthur C. Clarke >> >> <http://www.3danimationmagic.com> >> >> >> > > > -- > > Best Regards, > * Stephen P. Davidson* > > *(954) 552-7956 <%28954%29%20552-7956>* sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com > > *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* > > > - Arthur C. Clarke > > <http://www.3danimationmagic.com> > -- Best Regards, * Stephen P. Davidson* *(954) 552-7956* sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* - Arthur C. Clarke <http://www.3danimationmagic.com>
