Render Elements

This page is about render elements and their basic usage.

Overview

Render Elements are a way to break out renders into their component parts such as diffuse color, reflections, shadows, mattes, etc. This gives fine control over the final image when using compositing or image editing applications when re-assembling the final image from its component elements. Render elements are also sometimes known as render passes.

Render Elements are generated at render time based on the ones you choose before rendering.

For a complete list of render elements, see the List of Supported Render Elements below.

UI Path

To access the Render Elements dialog, go to:

||Tools menu|| > High Quality Render > Render elements rollout > Setup button

||Top toolbar|| > Hight Quality Render button () > Render elements rollout > Setup button

Render Elements Sub-groups

Render Elements in Chaos Vantage break down into four major groups:

• Beauty render elements – These are the primary render elements that form Vantage's pre-composited final render pass.
• Geometry render elements – These render elements rely on geometry to generate geometry data for the compositing process.
• Mask render elements – These render elements aid selection masking in the compositing process.
• Raw render elements – These are the primary render elements that form Vantage's pre-composited final render pass but without applying the Denoiser render element.

Supported Render Elements

The following render elements are supported by Chaos Vantage.