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
>>
>>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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