I’m having serious issues getting my head around how to save a multi-Render Element EXR.
Usually I render on my own single machine, via VFB, and save an EXR using the save button on VFB. No problem.
But… when I want to save a multi-Render Element EXR either using Backburner, or simply via the Render Setup Dialog box, it’s a bit hit and miss whether I get all render-element channels (usually I get just a single layer RGBA channel within my EXR).
So,
In Render Dialog box, there are two places I see how to save EXR files, one under the Common tab, and the other under Frame Buffer section (under the V-Ray tab).
If I save via the “V-Ray raw image file” option, there I can save as a .vrimg file and import that back into VFB and save as an EXR (longwinded but does the trick).
But if I save via the “V-Ray raw image file” option, there I can save as an EXR, but that doesn’t do that… the image gets saved as a .vrimg AND a .vrimgsl.
So why is the EXR option there at all ?
If I don’t do any of the above but use the “Save Files” under the “Common” tab, there I an specify EXR but must choose “Setup” to Add the Render Element as thus;
But this doesn’t work ?
And it definitely doesn’t work using Backburner (which I’d like to use).
Please, can someone give me a definitive explanation how to save multi-render elements EXR files ??
Many thanks.
