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Layering render components

Layering render components

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Layering render components

- [Instructor] If we've correctly saved out all of the shading and lighting components to their own render passes, then it's a simple matter to add them together to yield the same result as the beauty pass. And it's shown here as flood lighting production beauty 1 as the combined result of all the lighting and shading components. Additionally, I've got three RGBA or beauty passes for each one of the light groups, flood 1, flood 2 and the skydome light. Let's create a new composition from this beauty pass. Select it, right-click on it and choose New Comp from Selection. And now we have a new composition. Let's rename it with it selected press the Enter key and we'll rename it to flood lighting production comp and press Enter. So in that composition we've got a single footage item or a single layer which is beauty 1.exr. And we want to add the rest of these three layers here so let's just select them, hold down shift,…

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