Render Passes

[Ilkejav mk5]

hey guys, I was wondering if someone could give me quick tips on how to get different render passes and how to get them back together when doing animation (no photoshopping). I've been looking on the internet for tutorials and they're either for still images or they just don't apply to what I wanna do. I'm using Max 7.

[Orkron]

mmmm, not sure, but u could do a couple render types and then put them together in layers in FinalCut or Premiere or whatever....ive heard this is done sometimes to get different render qualities like color etc...

[Ilkejav mk5]

that's funny. I actually thought there was a way to do this directly into 3dsmax...

[edit]wait... now that I think of it, there is... but I have to get Combustion... darn...

thanks for the tip Okron... anybody else has something helpful to add?

[DeadlyFreeze]

Well getting them out is easy, just use the render (f10) > render elements and pick what you want. Re-compositing them is going to depended on what software your using....

[Orkron]

Well Combustion is still a seperate program...so u have to composite them outside max even with combustion...Max only renders stills...those stills can be made into movies using the QT or avi compressions etc, but essentially they are all still stills and putting together seperate elements of stills requires a seperate program...

[Ilkejav mk5]

well that makes sense... anyway i'll experiment on that... I'm using adobe premiere pro 1.5...

[DeadlyFreeze]

Well Combustion is still a seperate program...so u have to composite them outside max even with combustion...Max only renders stills...

Your wrong on that, max can render our each pass as video if you like but you would want to render it out as stills regardless since you would get compression artifacts if you choose video. It's is possiable though...

[Ilkejav mk5]

there's a way of rendering to AVI or MOV format with zero compression... it gives HUUUUGE files though...