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Title: Render elements question
Post by: rolland1013 on September 11, 2017, 01:22:39 PM
Can anyone tell me how to create a render element with only trees?  Bonus points if you can tell me how to do it for individual tree and plant types.  I still want to generate all the standard render element passes, I just want to be able to isolate the foliage and objects.

Thanks,
Niel
Title: Re: Render elements question
Post by: Oshyan on September 12, 2017, 01:07:15 AM
Put your objects into a separate object group and use the Layers functionality in the Render Layer node. You can then set visibility per-group. You will have to do separate renders for each separate group of objects you want though.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Render elements question
Post by: rolland1013 on September 13, 2017, 02:06:54 PM
Thanks for your reply Oshyan.  Although I still seem to be getting something wrong.  I want to isolate a tree type and have everything else as a holdout, but when I group the tree type, other objects (a foreground bush in this example) is rendered as well.  I have tried doing it two ways, one with just the tree in a group, and one with the tree in group and the bush in it's own group set to holdout.  What am I doing wrong?
Title: Re: Render elements question
Post by: Oshyan on September 16, 2017, 01:15:27 AM
Hmm, I believe holdout may currently be broken. We will be looking into this and addressing it ASAP if that is indeed the case. It would be available in a free 4.1 update, though I can't give a specific date yet. Sorry about that!

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Render elements question
Post by: Dune on September 16, 2017, 02:32:59 AM
That could well be, as I lately used a plane to get some reflective light, but it didn't work as before if set to invisible or holdout (it still showed up). 
Title: Re: Render elements question
Post by: rolland1013 on September 18, 2017, 01:04:11 PM
I eagerly await the update.  ;)

Thx
Niel
Title: Re: Render elements question
Post by: Matt on September 27, 2017, 06:45:41 PM
Hi Niel,

This has been fixed in 4.1.15.frontier. If you check for updates within the app you should see this build available to you now.

Matt
Title: Re: Render elements question
Post by: rolland1013 on November 03, 2017, 01:20:23 PM
I guess I should be checking the forums more frequently.  Thanks for the fix Matt!!!

Niel