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Hello,
I'm trying to change the settings of my render passes but nothing seem to happen. I tried adding passes in the tab "Render Elements" changing settings there for my Z-depth for example, reopening OctaneRender viewport and it still looks the same.

I've tried with both "path tracing" and "Info Channel". Changing the "Z-depth max" under "Info Channel" does nothing either but atleast it recalculates the image. I get the same problem with AO pass.
Using version 3.04.5 with 3ds max 2017

Am I missing something or doing something wrong? Or might this be a bug?

//Emanuel

Hi Hommli,
attached AO and Z-depth workflows in beauty, info channel and render elements.
Regards
Paride

thanks pharide for the super clear info.
i was struggling with this just now and could not get it to work.

even after setting it up as you screenshots, the output was still white.
my issue was that i needed to crank up the zdepth max to 999 to have it register.

btw: before i posted here, i was trying to look the manual up.
i cant seem to do any searches though. all it returns are forum topics for some reason. just an fyi.
that is also the reason i keep posting newbish user errors here. cant find anything in the manual.
now i know this to be an error because i find zdepth entries manually but not with the searches.

regards,

Thank you! I got it now. I was changing in Beauty to Z-depth the OctaneRender Viewport and then I changed the Z-depth max. Any idea why the Z-depth viewport isn't working?

So I guess the workflow is:
Use Kernel type Info Chanel
Check nonlinear tone mapping
Change Channel to Z-depth
In the viewport set as Beauty you see the changes you do to Z-depth max
When you're happy use the same value on the render element
Save out using render output in the common tab?

Regards
Hommli

Hi Hommli,
you can directly use zdepth with path tracing, PMC or direct light instead of info channel.
Regards
Paride

Right, I understand. Thank you so much!