Octane keeps rendering multiple identical AOVs

[marco_py]

I have a scene with 2 characters, and some
Fog volumes.

I want to render these passes

- Layer mask for each character
- shadow pass
- Z depth pass
- overall volume pass

But octane is for some reason rendering 3 identical looking passes for the z depth, volume and shadows. I don't know why, I've read the documentation and I'm still confused. It eats up my render times.

I've set the layer ID to 2 and 3 for my characters in the Object tag

[bepeg4d]

Hi,
old Layer masks are not good, please have a look at here:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=77470&p=399465&hil ... in#p399465

And here:
viewtopic.php?f=30&t=77017&start=10&hil ... te#p409293

ciao,
Beppe

[marco_py]

Thank you,

I have figured out AOVs, but I'm having a problem where I've set a custom AOV to this character, but the background sky/volume and some reflections are showing up in the output. I have set it to primary Rays only.



I set the character to custom AOV 2 in the object tag, and that's it. I also have a HDRI and 2 volumes in the scene.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[bepeg4d]

Hi,
I think there is a glitch with Visible after popup selection
Try to choose a different one, then back to None - primary rays only mode:

ciao,
Beppe

[marco_py]

I still get the same issue after trying that

[jayroth2020]

AOVs are intended to provide a particular output, and often include indirect lighting and reflection contributions, depending upon the AOV chosen. If you want solid, output with no capture of indirect and/or reflected light, better to use a cryptomatte or object ID matte/AOV for that purpose.

If you post your scene, we can take a look.