We have a rule based way of sorting partitions called the "Sort Controller", originally conceived by Andy Jones. It's been extremely powerful.
You write your passes in a simple markup language in a PPG on the pass, like this. Copy pasting from a real production scene I have open right now- Background_Objects_Partition = * characters = sg_character set = sg_set lighting_geo = sg_lighting_geo l: Background_Lights_Partition = * l: env = sg_lEnv l: key = sg_lKey l: rim = sg_lRim What that does is puts objects in a group called "sg_character" into a partition called "characters". So each pass has a sort controller on it, and the scene can stay sorted by managing the sort groups, called SG by convention. It's been extremely good to us. Other than that, passes and partitions do their work exactly the way soft is supposed to, except that the partitions are sorted by the Sort Controller. Even our least technical lighters got used to it no problem, and it's universally loved. On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Andy Goehler <lists.andy.goeh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thank you for saying that Eric. While Softs Passes/Partitions are still > great and better than others out there, I feel the same way. Having to add > yet another object to a partition in x amount of passes is something I've > become to hate. Referencing of partitions/groups in passes would help, > expression/rule based assignment, or yet a node based approach to passes. > Wait what? :-) > > Andy > > > > On Mar 08, 2014, at 23:21, Eric Thivierge <ethivie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think we all need to be honest, there were concepts that were great > about passes / partitions but there were some things that needed fixing > (still do). We need something that isn't exactly like the pass / partition > system. We need something better. > > >
