[Bf-committers] Feature request - "Copy Render Layer"

[PabloVazquez.org]

@Bartek

Yes that'd be a nice addition, but I think both options should be provided.

Your approach seems good when copying a couple layers, but sometimes is
needed to copy many (characters, bg, fg, zmasks, and so on).

I think the best way would be to:
- Copy/Paste individual RenderLayer to buffer.
- Import RenderLayers from X scene
- Import RenderLayers from file...
    - This could be a little popup invoke that lets you browse to the file,
once the file is chosen it will the scenes in a dropdown, for each scene a
list of the renderlayers to import.

Is this even possible with current Blender's API?



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On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Bartek Skorupa (priv) <
bartekskorupa at bartekskorupa.com> wrote:

> @Pablo
> You're right. It should be called "Duplicate Render Layer". I didn't think
> about it this way. I'll change it.
> I'll also try to figure out a way to "Copy/Paste" render layers between
> scenes or files. My goal here would be to make it work the same as when we
> copy/paste nodes.
> Desired behavior would be like this:
>
> Select render layer, then click COPY, open another scene or another file
> and hit PASTE.
> What do you think about it?
>
> I think this kind of behavior would be easier to handle by users than
> "appending" render layers as it is in "Import Render Layers" add-on.
> You don't always know all render layers by heard, so probably anyway
> before running "Imposrt Render Layers" you'd want to open the source file,
> right? Just to be sure if you import what you want.
>
> Cheers
>
> Bartek Skorupa
>
> www.bartekskorupa.com
>
> On 1 lut 2013, at 23:53, PabloVazquez.org <venomgfx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Great script Bartek! Although I think the name should be "Duplicate
> > RenderLayer" instead. "Copy" gives me the feeling it would copy it to the
> > buffer for later paste, like materials/textures menu does (which would be
> > great indeed!)
> >
> > About copying renderlayers between files/scenes, I've been waiting for
> this
> > since always. But I always forget to poke the devs about it.
> >
> > Now, working on Tube, I needed it a lot. Bassam was kind enough to make a
> > quick addon for this.
> >
> > Import RenderLayers Addon:
> > http://www.pasteall.org/39351
> >
> > Incredibly useful, it lets you append RenderLayers from another file.
> >
> > The only limitation right now due to the lack of time, is that right now
> it
> > only imports the renderlayers from the first scene, it should let you
> > choose from which scene to append the renderlayers from. Any awesome
> python
> > hacker to jump in and help?
> >
> > Once we have that, I believe this addon should be included in Blender
> > trunk, perhaps even enabled by default.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > --
> > Pablo Vazquez
> > CG Artist - Blender Foundation Certified Trainer
> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/venomgfx
> > Blender Network: http://blendernetwork.org/member/pablo-vazquez
> > E-mail: contact at pablovazquez.org
> > Website: http://www.pablovazquez.org
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Juan Pablo Bouza <jpbouza at hotmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi!!
> >>
> >> Moreover, I think that there should be an option to copy a render layer
> >> from one scene to another one....
> >>
> >> In many cases you need to do exact copies of render layers throughout
> many
> >> scenes. Currently the only way to do this is to create an empty scene
> with
> >> the render layer settinga, and then you have to start appending the
> objects
> >> from the animation scene.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: bartekskorupa at bartekskorupa.com
> >>> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 23:15:23 +0100
> >>> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> >>> Subject: [Bf-committers] Feature request - "Copy Render Layer"
> >>>
> >>> I am missing a little feature that shouldn't be very hard to implement,
> >> especially that I was able to create a simple add on that does exactly
> what
> >> I am looking for.
> >>> When creating render layers we have the option to add new render layer,
> >> remove render layer, but what is missing is the ability to make the
> exact
> >> copy of existing render layer.
> >>> It would help in many cases, like when you want to add new render layer
> >> where you'd like to change just one setting comparing to the render
> layer
> >> that already exists.
> >>>
> >>> As I mentioned at the beginning I created a simple add on that does it.
> >> It adds a button in the render layers panel. The button executes the
> >> operator that creates exact copy of selected render layer.
> >>> I could simply ask for including this add on to blender, but I think
> >> such feature shouldn't be implemented via add-on, but on a "higher
> level".
> >> What do you think?
> >>>
> >>> Here's the code:
> >>> http://www.pasteall.org/39349
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://cg.bartekskorupa.com/copy-render-layer/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers
> >>>
> >>> Bartek Skorupa
> >>>
> >>> www.bartekskorupa.com
> >>>
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