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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

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

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,

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.

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

Great news

Thank you Paul, have a great day!

Stefan