How does Layer ID, Object ID, Material ID work?
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Not sure what you´re trying to achieve. Are you expecting transparent areas when material tag is turned off?
I think it´s for post-production purposes:
I think this only works when saving to exr format, not png or tiff.
It should contain all the selected layers.
Never tried those though.
It should contain all the selected layers.
Never tried those though.
Sure - 16/32bit makes it only into exr/hdr and additional IDs are just in exr maintained - though tiff could handle 16/32bit color depth.
son of the light
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why I can not find the RGB A Z materialID on cheetah3d?
Are you talking about the Z-buffer? It´s part of the G-buffer and can be saved to hdr and exr file formats when enabled and rendered.
son of the light
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but my cheetah have no that layout RGB A oZ layers when save HDR or exr
As the attachments above shows the layers I may ask where do you check the saved exr files?
You need to enable "G-Buffer" and "Z-Buffer" to be able to save to "exr/hdr" file formats:
You need to enable "G-Buffer" and "Z-Buffer" to be able to save to "exr/hdr" file formats:
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I have no idea how it works in Maya - should I know? I still don't get what you want to achieve with this function. I only was able to get kind of a scene mask when using a HDRI as light-source for example.
Every material will get a different colour in the same layer (apparently unrelated to the base colour).
Open the exported render.exr in a layer-based image-app, chose the material ID layer and select same colour of the material you want to make a mask specific for that material.
Then you can work on those parts of the image that show objects with that material.
i was just wondering what channels are rendered with the G-buffer ID switches. If I render several different materials, how do the different materials appear on the Material ID channel? Or if there are multiple layers in the render, will they appear separately on the layer ID channel? or what is the function of these switches? I want to understand the purpose of these switches.
it doesn't work that way on my machine. could you give me an example?
A very simple setup with three materials from the library:
After exporting to exr, in Photoshop I get this in the material ID layer:
Each material got its own colour (perhaps assigned randomly).
Now in Affinity Photo, which I just bought with black Friday rebate, the layer content is all white
I will have to acquaint myself with this app first obviously...
After exporting to exr, in Photoshop I get this in the material ID layer:
Each material got its own colour (perhaps assigned randomly).
Now in Affinity Photo, which I just bought with black Friday rebate, the layer content is all white
I will have to acquaint myself with this app first obviously...