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Rendering particles passes with 3Delight

Hi, I'm rendering lot of point particles with 3Delight. Now I'm trying to render different passes, most of them don't work, like Z, or luminance depth. Is there any trick involved. …
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Render management software

What render management software do people like, from both a cost and a user experience point of view? How do you like the way they manage jobs, and how do you find them to adminis …
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Nuke equivalent of Shake’s 1-sys.runLevel

Question posted at VFX Overflow Facebook group by Matthew Shaw: Anyone out there know if there is a Nuke equivalent to Shake's 1-sys.runLevel command that enables a node (or difff …
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Renderfarming on computers, processors or cores?

There are various renderfarm task / processor configuration strategies, probably the most common being the following three: One task for a machine, regardless of processor and co …
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inconsistent Z depth in Maya render

When I render sequences with particles (software or hardware) using batch-render or HRB I get jittered Depth data with inconstant data range. This data will use in compose for sim …
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How to create occlusion in a fish school with 3delight

In this video you can see there is a dense shadow that forms in the interior of the school. Any ideas how can I create that efficiently with 3delight? I'm thinking along the lines …
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3d motion blur and retimed plates

If a plate is sped up 250%, and 3d elements will be added, should the shutter in the 3d software be reduced by a factor of 2.5? Or is it best to apply some extra 2d motion blur to …
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3Delight and Maya render layers?

Is it possible to launch 1 3Delight render that will render different cameras in different render layers? Thanks in advance