Render passes naming convention - difference between GUI and standalone

[simonbjork]

I think there's a bug with render passes and the naming convention. If I render a normal animation (no render pass group), the naming is correct, i.e shot01_v001.0001.exr. If I render an animation with a specified render pass group I get an incorrect naming when using GUI, shot01_v001.pass010001.exr (a dot is missing). If I use standalone, I get the correct naming convention, shot01_v001.pass01.0001.exr. Any chance this could be fixed in a nightly? It seems like a minor issue, but it actually is a bit of a pain in a pipeline as renders use a different naming convention.

[vladimir.nedev]

Can you give me a scene for this. I am not able to reproduce it with a recent nightly on a simple scene.
There must be something specific.
Which of the EXR formats are you saving to ?

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[boyan]

Hey, Simon,

Thx for the feedback. Indeed there is a difference between standalone and GUI exporters. I will log in to our system, meanwhile, I will keep you posted for a workaround by using the command line and animation if possible.

Cheers,

[simonbjork]

Thanks for taking a look Vladimir. Attached is a simple scene.

- Vray/Render animation
- Set the pass group to "colors"
- Set frame range to 1, 1.
- Choose output image and save it as shot01_v001 and as a 16-bit layered exr (all elements in same file)

See that result is named: shot01_v001.green0001.exr

[vladimir.nedev]

Thanks, I can reproduce it now. It seems the key part is to use the "all elements in same file" EXR format, otherwise it works as expected.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[vladimir.nedev]

This should be fixed for tomorrow's nightly build ( the one from 2020.04.17 ).
It happened even when rendering without render pass groups, you just have to save to multi-channel EXR.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[simonbjork]

Thanks a lot Vladimir, that's great!

Ah yes I see now that it's the same for non render passes as well. I use a script for launching renders and I see that I had added an extra dot after the filename to work around that.