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

Sat Feb 2 23:18:11 CET 2013

I don't know, but I am working on it just now.
Up till now I managed to copy/paste render layers between scenes in the same file.
I also managed to paste render layer to different file, but without layers and mask layers.
I have problems with those attributes as they are stored in the buffer together with reference to original scene etc. When I open another file - those data are no longer available, so it does't want to work.

I will first try to make my solution work and if I succeed - I'll try to combine this with Bassam's script.

Bartek Skorupa

www.bartekskorupa.com

On 2 lut 2013, at 22:43, PabloVazquez.org <venomgfx at gmail.com> wrote:

> @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?
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Pablo Vazquez
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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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