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Octane Render Layer - folder names

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 2:24 pm
by sampakinpa
Hi,
I'm using Octane for Maya 4 and 2020.
I have a question regarding render layers (octaneRenderLayer).
When I render with `render layers` in Octane for Maya, Those rendered layers images outputs to folders named `layer_1`, `layer_2` etc.
Can Those folders be renamed to custom names or even disregarded completely?

Re: Octane Render Layer - folder names

Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:02 pm
by JimStar
No, you can not rename them.
The number in these "layer_N" names corresponds to Octane's layer number, which is logical.
Eliminating these folders completely would blow up the output files' names readability, forcing them to differ from requested naming-template and have the same layer-number chunk as part of output file-names (because you can't have same-named files in the same directory).
Just use some simple post-render script to copy all the output files to whatever special places you like...

Re: Octane Render Layer - folder names

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 11:55 am
by sampakinpa
Ok, Thanks