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About Ivan Tepavicharov

RenderMask

Submitted by Ivan Tepavicharov on Tue, 2009-02-03 06:29

Version:

5.77.3

Date Updated:

03/12/2013

Author Name:

Ivan Tepavicharov

Render different types of masks (luminance, RGB, env.reflection, light, objectsID, SSS, texture, AO, ZDepth). The script don't affect the scene materials, lights and render settings.

v5.77.3 - add "Black Hole" mask

http://www.vimeo.com/26107414 (Tutorial)

Additional Info:

Category "RequiemScripts"

Version Requirement:

3dsmax 8, 3dsmax 9, 3dsmax 2008 - 2013

Links

Homepage URL:

http://www.tepavicharov.com/

Download URL:

http://www.tepavicharov.com/scripts.html

Comments

Submitted by themaxxer on Tue, 2013-04-23 04:38.

want to push the instance

want to push the instance option...
"is it possible to add an option to the wirecolor tool to handle instances as one object?"

thanks. I use the script almost every day...

best regards
themaxxer

Submitted by stealthx on Mon, 2013-04-08 04:51.

It is fast and it works ... incredible!!! Thank you.

Submitted by Ivan Tepavicharov on Wed, 2013-03-13 02:40.

themaxxer - OK

themaxxer - OK

Submitted by themaxxer on Wed, 2013-03-13 02:23.

is it possible to add an

is it possible to add an option to the wirecolor tool to handle instances as one object? if you add random colors all instances get an other color, that's not so nice...

great script, thanks.

best regards
themaxxer

Submitted by stanley_asbeek on Fri, 2013-03-01 07:02.

Nice one caebrasil, thanks a

Nice one caebrasil, thanks a lot, I will check that out ASAP ;-)

Ivan, I was wondering if you already thought about maybe using layers as a selection in staid of actually selecting the object in your scene.

We where actually talking about all this on VRay's forum, and the idea of using layers as a selection went up, and I think it would be a great way to handle large selection sets.

Now, I know it's easy to select the object through the layer manager, but the idea is to go a little further and being able to see through XRef as well.

Often, now, if I need to render a mask of something in a XRef, I need to merge, select, render, and the scene are becoming big (several hundred Mo compressed) and fastidious to work with.

If the layers where a way of selecting object, and it would be reading through the XRef, it would be a life saver.

I hope I'm not bothering you too much at once ;-)

Cheers,

Stan

ps : Yo Kab, tout va super ici! Gros bisous de nous deux!

Submitted by caebrasil on Fri, 2013-03-01 05:07.

Stanley, Mental Ray already

Stanley, Mental Ray already do it, I think that your problem is because you're using VRay.
I really don't understand why VRay can't do that. This is a very old feature of MR.
This script is old but I believe it still works:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/vray-matte-pass-on-selected

Submitted by Ivan Tepavicharov on Fri, 2013-03-01 01:46.

stanley_asbeek - ОК, I'll do

stanley_asbeek - ОК, I'll do some tests and try.
best regards :-))

Submitted by stanley_asbeek on Thu, 2013-02-28 21:39.

Hi Ivan, I'm sorry if I

Hi Ivan,

I'm sorry if I didn't understoud the idea of the script in your way.
But as far as I know your script is design to create a mask of OA, luminance, ID, reflection, texture, etc

Isn't the whole idea creating a mask of the selected object by rendering out only those with specified properties (OA, refl, texture, color, etc) and all the rest black?

If yes, I don't really see how having only the selected object rendering with the material that are already applied and the rest black would be completely out of the idea of this script. :-)

I might have misleading when I pointed that "DeeX V-Ray Arsenal" but that was only because they have a script that renders only selected object with the rest black (matte). Not for all the rest of the script which is basically a solid rocks for maya.

Now it's right, the only difference with all the other options that you're providing, is that for the base material (to be rendered correctly) need to have the rest as matte objs.

I hope I made me more clear about my thoughts,

Anyway, Thanks for your script, it's great, and you're greatly helping the community by providing updates and attention to us.

Cheers

Stan

Submitted by kimbaway on Thu, 2013-02-28 04:46.

Change Units setup

I think rendermask works in meters.
If you work in cm, think to divide your values by 100 and your Zdepth will be correct ;)
Is it possible to add a function for change the Unit in rendermask? Because for the radius of the AO is limited to 1 and I can't put a smaller value.

Thanks.

Submitted by kab on Thu, 2013-02-28 04:36.

scene scale

Hi Ivan,

First of all, big thank for that script. It's one of the most usefull!

But, I noticed most of the passes (Zdepth, AO, etc.) don't care about the scene scale and are always computed in meters.

It's a bit annoying cause, even if the value can be edit, it refuses decimals...

Could you fix that?

(@Cabbage: I guess you have that kind of problem, try to scale down (1/100) the zdepth values and you will have a correct zdepth rendermask pass)

Private:
Iow Stan! What's up in Australia? Bonjour à Reb! Bizzz!