LayerdTex & BlendMaterial not working in Batch Render

[pipe_mm]

Hello,
I ran into this problem within various scenes, and solved it with workarounds.
Still it would be great to use Vray´s LayeredTex for animation.

So here we go:
as you can see from the attachments I tried VrayLayerdTex for fileNodes and Vray BlendMaterial for Materials.
I plug in several files/materials and animate the opacity (also tried blend).
Works perfectly fine in Frame Buffer looking at singel frames.
When I do a batch rendering it ignores the animation.
The texture just stays in the first setting, as if there would be no keyframes.
Is there some kind of order/hirarchy, so that this sub-nodes get ignored.


Vray 5.20
Maya 2022
GPU Rendering (RTX to be precise)

Thanks for help
Martin

[pipe_mm]

https://pipe.green-cloud.at/index.php/s/owZAFrRjimWqSJi

here a preview on where we are going
I had to start the batch renderning from each postion change, to get the texture update.
for further production (several scenes and characters) it would be great to have working LayeredTextures

I will have a test with Mayas Layered Texture Node and see if it does the trick,
still it would be great to have the Vray Node´s available.

[Dan Andersen]

AFAIK "Opacity" in the VRayLayeredTex is not designed to accept connections - it's meant as a simple multiplier for whatever is connected to the "Mask" parameter.

Try animating the "Mask"-parameter instead - that should evaluate properly in batch.