Can anyone tell me how to create a render element with only trees? Bonus points if you can tell me how to do it for individual tree and plant types. I still want to generate all the standard render element passes, I just want to be able to isolate the foliage and objects.
Thanks,
Niel
Put your objects into a separate object group and use the Layers functionality in the Render Layer node. You can then set visibility per-group. You will have to do separate renders for each separate group of objects you want though.
- Oshyan
Thanks for your reply Oshyan. Although I still seem to be getting something wrong. I want to isolate a tree type and have everything else as a holdout, but when I group the tree type, other objects (a foreground bush in this example) is rendered as well. I have tried doing it two ways, one with just the tree in a group, and one with the tree in group and the bush in it's own group set to holdout. What am I doing wrong?
Hmm, I believe holdout may currently be broken. We will be looking into this and addressing it ASAP if that is indeed the case. It would be available in a free 4.1 update, though I can't give a specific date yet. Sorry about that!
- Oshyan
That could well be, as I lately used a plane to get some reflective light, but it didn't work as before if set to invisible or holdout (it still showed up).
I eagerly await the update. ;)
Thx
Niel
Hi Niel,
This has been fixed in 4.1.15.frontier. If you check for updates within the app you should see this build available to you now.
Matt
I guess I should be checking the forums more frequently. Thanks for the fix Matt!!!
Niel