Maya: Is there a way to batch or sequence render a World Normal pass as a regular image output?
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Hello all,
I am trying to achieve something like this in Maya Renderer or Arnold Renderer:
I have a model and animation ready and I know how to do the regular batch render, but I was wondering if it was somehow possible to do a batch or sequence render of the World Normals?
The most simple solution I can think of is to have a world normal shader and simply render the sequence twice, once with regular shading and once with world normal shading.
But I'm not sure how to go about creating such a shader or how to even access world normals in the hypergraph window.
Any Maya wizards around that can push me in the right direction?
I have a model and animation ready and I know how to do the regular batch render, but I was wondering if it was somehow possible to do a batch or sequence render of the World Normals?
The most simple solution I can think of is to have a world normal shader and simply render the sequence twice, once with regular shading and once with world normal shading.
But I'm not sure how to go about creating such a shader or how to even access world normals in the hypergraph window.
Any Maya wizards around that can push me in the right direction?
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just use an aiUtility node with these settings...
shade mode = flat
color mode = normal
You can also set up an AOV to render it out at the same time as the beauty pass etc.
google will explain the technical bits
Let's say I wanted it to be based on Object space or Camera based rather than World coordinates, how would I do it then? The aiUtility node seems to be working with World coordinates by default.
You need to perform a matrix transform.
Google should be able to cover the rest