render layer to pass?

[dre4mer]

Would there be any way to get the contents of a render layer into a vray pass in the master layer?

It's a strange question but it's because of a trick i'm trying to do to increase render speed. I'm killing the vray process before it unloads RAM in BB, but it's apparently only doing the master render layer so i'm losing the shadow pass which I was doing that way.

If it could do it all in the master layer I think I would get the render speed increase and still get my passes.

[dre4mer]

I guess this isn't possible?

[yolov]

Hi,

As far as I understand, you're killing vray after rendering and it doesn't start the next layer, is that correct?
I'm guessing you're using the environment variable to do this?

[dre4mer]

I found a script to send each render layer to BB as a separate job, that should do the trick.

http://mayazest.blogspot.com/2015/05...er-layers.html