simultaneous on/off Render Element flags in Render settings?

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1

Hello,

Is there a way to flag on/off several selected Render Elements at once in the Render Settings window?
Like shift+select+Y/N or similar?

Thanks,

s

2

Not that I know, but I’ve come to love L Pass Manager in the last few weeks: http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/l-pass-manager
There you can very quickly select/deselect elements per pass.

3

oops, this was a question for the Maya forum.

Thanks,
s.

4

I don’t think so, but I’ll put it down as a feature request.

Best regards,
Vlado

5

If we can create some “set” of renderElements (like mentalRay), it would be great.

6

I modified Dmitry’s suggestions in another thread to make this decent workaround.

s.

//selects all vRay Render Elements and pops them to the attr spreadsheet window for fun toggling.
string $vRayElem[]= `ls -type VRayRenderElement`;
select -r $vRayElem;
SpreadSheetEditor;

7

You can select the RE in the outliner if the DAG object only is off. once selected you can use the spreadsheet window to switch them on/off.

Yannick

8

What I usually do is have a separate maya file which only has render elements and a control node. I know ahead of time which render elements should be on/off on which render layers. Then I connect the control node with enable switch to those layers, for example for beauty, utility, custom only specific layers get enabled.