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

Juan Pablo Bouza jpbouza at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 4 16:22:20 CET 2013 

Great addition Bartek! I'll test it out when I have time!!

See you!


> From: bartekskorupa at bartekskorupa.com
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 15:53:07 +0100
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Feature request - "Copy Render Layer"
> 
> Managed to make it work.
> 
> Currently we have 4 buttons available:
> "Duplicate": Duplicates selected render layer
> "Copy": Copies selected render layer to clipboard
> "Copy All": Copies all render layers of active scene to clipboard
> "Paste": Pastes render layers from clipboard to active scene.
> 
> It works across scenes in the same file as well as between files.
> If you want to Copy/Paste render layers between files do this:
> "Copy" or :Copy All", then open the destination file and hit "Paste"
> 
> All of the render layers will be pasted to current scene of opened file.
> 
> If any of copied render layers had "material override" or "light override" and such material or light group doesn't exist in destination file - it simply won't be pasted and warning in info panel will appear.
> 
> Link to wiki and download:
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Render/Copy_Render_Layer
> 
> Tracker:
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=34109&group_id=153&atid=467
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Bartek Skorupa
> 
> www.bartekskorupa.com
> 
> On 2 lut 2013, at 23:18, Bartek Skorupa (priv) <bartekskorupa at bartekskorupa.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >> 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 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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