Sorry, I misread your original question. It is not possible to have a SINGLE mult-ipass EXR file, in standard Softimage, only individual EXR file for each pass.
You can do this in Softimage, with Arnold plugin: https://support.solidangle.com/display/SItoAUG/Multi-Layer+EXR On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 3:37 AM, Siew Yi Liang <soni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Stephen: > > I believe that's how I set my scene up; however, whenever I render, I'm > still getting each EXR pass as a separate file instead of one multichannel > EXR...? > > http://i.imgur.com/NNAnloG.png > > I tried setting the filename output to be just [Pass] without the > [Framebuffer] token, but that just resulted in the last pass being what was > written to the EXR. > > Is there something else I'm missing here? I'm on XSI 2013 SP1 at home, but > I tried 2014 at school and ran into the same problem as well, so I don't > think that's the issue... > > Yours sincerely, > Siew Yi Liang > > On 4/18/2014 7:06 AM, Stephen Davidson wrote: > > yes... still there. > define the render channel (ambient, specular, etc.), then change the > format to EXR > > look here: > > http://softimage.wiki.softimage.com/xsidocs/renderchannels_RenderingBuiltInandPresetChannels.htm#Rgu19596 > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Siew Yi Liang <soni...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all: >> >> So I'm wrapping up a little short animation test in XSI, and I haven't >> touched the default MR renderer in it for quite awhile...was wondering if >> there was actually a way to now render multichannel EXRs natively with >> mental ray shaders? I tried searching around for the old ctrl_pass shaders >> thingy, but couldn't find it anywhere. (I don't have access to VRay at >> home, which is why I'm asking =\ ) But it seems that looking through the >> docs there still isn't any mention about it... >> >> -- >> Yours sincerely, >> Siew Yi Liang >> >> > > > -- > > Best Regards, > * Stephen P. Davidson* > > *(954) 552-7956 <%28954%29%20552-7956> * sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com > > *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* > > > - Arthur C. Clarke > > <http://www.3danimationmagic.com> > > > -- Best Regards, * Stephen P. Davidson* *(954) 552-7956* sdavid...@3danimationmagic.com *Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic* - Arthur C. Clarke <http://www.3danimationmagic.com>