Cineversity

So there’s a feature in the Hair Render for Multi-Pass. I’ve added the Post Effects option to the Multi-Pass render selection in the Standard renderer but I’m still not getting an alpha for my grass. I just get a solid black frame. I have no idea what I’m doing wrong but it’s becoming pretty frustrating because I can’t seem to find a clear answer. Can anyone help me out on this?

Hi Sean,

Please have a look at this file.
Scene file
https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/BxjEVShflItg6OZQvHSpkJlfT1VaeaameqerHTyNaNd

Render it to the Picture Viewer, go then to Layer>Single Pass, and let me know if there is something useful for you.

All the best

That did it! Looks like I needed to have the RGBA Image effect in there as well. You saved my weekend!

For some reason though, adding Global Illumination kills the effect. The Hair, depth, alpha and multiply channels all turn out blank. Any idea why that might be?

Sean, since the manual isn’t really pointing in any direction, my estimate is, that the Grass Shader has no option to change the results into anything else other than a volumetric effect. In Hair one can generate different “Hair” results, e.g., Square. In Grass that option is not given. The Grass will turn into any color that the light produces in GI so far I can see it (white lights results in gray grass), perhaps not really the result one is after.

The only way I can see to make it work: render two passes. I’m not certain if there is more, or that the support has maybe a trick available.
https://www.maxon.net/en-us/support/how-can-we-help/

All the best

Thanks for your help Dr Sassi. I guess I’ll have to render out the 2 passes since my scene needs GI. It’s better than no option at all

Hi Sean,

Yes, sorry, I tried the usual suspects, but no change in R19 in this regard. I hope I do not missed something.

Perhaps the Take System will help to make this less of an effort.

If you render the GI scene, maybe an invisible polygon in the gras area with a green material might help to create the “green-spill” to objects, if that is needed.

My best wishes for the project