render layer

[kxl]

Hi Paul,

Is there a way to use Render layer in the archicad plugin ? or will be the the new Lighting passes (from the 2.21 standalone) available in the next release ? because i think is a very great feature.

Thank you

Stefan

[face_off]

Hi Stefan

I don't see a viable way to implement render layers for ArchiCAD at the moment. The problem is....how do you assign an ArchiCAD scene element to a layer? You could put all the walls on one layer, doors on another, windows on another, etc, but I doubt that would be much use. Assigning AC layers to Octane layers is a problem, because the plugin would need to parse the entire scene geometry for every AC layer - which would substantially slow load time. At the moment all AC geometry is loaded into a single Octane Mesh node - so it's all assigned to a single Octane layer.

I would welcome any suggestion you have on this...

Paul

[rappet]

Hi Stefan,
What do you want to accomplish by render layers?
What workflow will that be easy for?
Trying to think with you... but do not see the use yet.
Cheers,

[kxl]

The main reason was to make the new feature Light passes work in the Archicad plugin so i was thinking that if render layer would work so do the Light passes. I was trying to assign different lights to different layers making it work like multilight in maxwell.

[face_off]

Light passes will be in the next release. Just assign the Light Pass Id to the Emission node and then pick which Light Pass you want to render.

Paul

[kxl]

Great news

Thank you Paul, have a great day!

Stefan