It's also possible to write a post render script in nuke that would compile them into one file.
On Sunday, April 20, 2014, Stephen Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: > I just saw that 3Delight also supports multichannel EXR and offers on free > license. > http://softimage.tv/3delight-for-softimage-4-0/ > > > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Siew Yi Liang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Stephen: > > Yep, I would have done that in VRay in school...but now if I have to re-do > my shading and lighting >_< I think for this little thing I'll just render > to seperate files for now. I did find this thread: > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/xsi_list/multichannel/xsi_list/ZIIQoCGQmQ0/mDemhTdPlwQJ > > But I can't find the ctrl_pass/buffer shader mentioned anywhere around. > > Anyway, thanks! :) At least I know I wasn't missing something through the > standard UI... > > Yours sincerely, > Siew Yi Liang > > On 4/19/2014 7:58 AM, Stephen Davidson wrote: > > I believe you can also create multichannel exr's in Vray, as well. > You are only restricted to separate passes, in mentalray, in Softimage. > > > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Stephen Davidson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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: > >

