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Subject: Alpha mask render

Paul Francis opened this issue on Mar 30, 2008 · 5 posts
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Paul Francis ( ) posted Sun, 30 March 2008 at 10:31 AM · edited Tue, 29 October 2024 at 5:59 AM

Hi folks; does anyone know how to produce an alpha mask render on it's own, rather than have to wait for the main render to complete?  I used an alpha mask here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1646944

...but what a pain, to have to produce a full-blown render to get the alpha mask....I turned off the atmosphere, shaows etc to spped it up, but a simple alpha mask (as Bryce can do) would be a real plus!

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bruno021 ( ) posted Sun, 30 March 2008 at 1:09 PM

Depends on your Vue version. Infinite & xStream can render alpha masks while rendering the main picture.


Rutra ( ) posted Sun, 30 March 2008 at 4:34 PM

When I want this I just render in preview mode. It's normally a few seconds and it's good enough (the lack of AA in preview mode can bring some problems though, but for most purposes you can fix it in PS with some blur).

Paul Francis ( ) posted Sun, 30 March 2008 at 4:51 PM

Thanks for this guys - the preview mode seems to be the way to do it.  Esprit does the main render, alpha and Z masks all at once too.

My self-build system - Vista 64 on a Kingston 240GB SSD, Asus P5Q Pro MB, Quad 6600 CPU, 8 Gb Geil Black Dragon Ram, CoolerMaster HAF932 full tower chassis, EVGA Geforce GTX 750Ti Superclocked 2 Gb, Coolermaster V8 CPU aircooler, Enermax 600W Modular PSU, 240Gb SSD, 2Tb HDD storage, 28" LCD monitor, and more red LEDs than a grown man really needs.....I built it in 2008 and can't afford a new one, yet.....!

My Software - Poser Pro 2012, Photoshop, Bryce 6 and Borderlands......"Catch a  r--i---d-----e-----!"

 

silverblade33 ( ) posted Sun, 30 March 2008 at 6:57 PM

I have infinite, but I note alpha renders are iffy at times, so I usually resort to rendering it out, it's VERY fast and easy by the way.

Set chosen object to be Flat Black, rest Flat white, since those mats don't have highlights etc, should take only a minute or two to render, regardless of size :)

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