[Bf-committers] Render Layer Proposal

[François T.]

> I know this isn't an answer for all your problems and it doesn't fix
> the need of a composite node to render animation, but have you tried
> creating a node group for passes?
> You can create a generic node group with each pass connected to one
> file output node mapped to a relative directory (for intance //color/
> //shadow/ //ao/, etc.) and append it each time you need it.
> Less than ideal, but usable.
> One thing comes to my mind: it would be great to have an input socket
> for the file name in file-output nodes, and a node to input text or
> expressions in order to, for instance, append a path to the output.
>


thanks, that's actually what I end up doing. But I'm not trying to find a
solution to do it now, I'm just giving a proposal so its not as much as a
pain to do as it is now (to not say better :) )