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Can someone please help me?

Whats the order we have to give to EACH pass in After effects in order to get the same image rendered?? and what are the modes for each pass??

Im trying but im getting different result, i think im not setting modes and ordering right.

Also Karbe would it be possible to add a Shadow Pass?

Nildo

My Order is this..

Direct Diffuse is the lowest, then i put
Direct Reflection then
Indirect Reflection
and finally Refraction

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Hi Nildo,

I tried setting up a project in a trial version of After Effects this morning but I gave up in frustration (I couldn't even import the layers of the EXR with Fnord Pro EXR)

All our render passes add up so a simple addition should suffice -- order should not make any difference. Can you simply add up the layers and see if that works?

Here's a screenshot with a setup from blender that produces exactly the same result as the beauty pass:
Shadow passes are planned in the near future. Have a look here to see what's on the roadmap.

cheers,
Thomas

Great to see this post.
Add works!

Thanks for that.
Robert

Hi Thomas,

Thx alot for replying, good to know whats the roadmap regarding passes..I tried just adding, its seems to do the trick BUT, one thing i noticed, when u render with alpha on, there is fine line around the objects edges to the alpha i cant seem to get rid of...even if i check pre-multiply option in AE.

Any Ideas?

Nildo

Did u try unchecking "keep environment" before rendering in max? Works like a charm in photoshop. Havent tried AE, but it should work also.

Can you post a screenshot?

cheers,
Thomas

Hi Thomas,

I will do that as soon as possible thanks, and btw keep environment is UN-CHECKED yes, and to me even in Photoshop i still see a fine line in the Alpha channel, of pixels on the edges of the rendered objects.

Nildo

Ok i have exr renderpasses adding up to equal the final render in Photoshop.

The trick was to use Linear on the camera. and then just Linear Dodge (add) for layers.

It works really well if you use the File/place linked/ for each layer pass, as Photoshop will then instantly update all the passes once your initial PS file i set up.