Can you tell render layers to start and stop along the timeline?

Support Compositing and Post Processing
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Let’s say you have a render layer for some doors and a render layer for everything behind the doors. There’d be no point rendering the layer of stuff behind the doors while the doors are closed, so it woulld be nice to be able to switch that layer on and off over time.

I noticed the compositor has a time node… but not sure if that will actually stop the renderer from actually even rendering the layer, or if it will just render it but not composit it, if so, no time render saved. Can’t find much on that node anywhere.

Can anyone help please? Thanks.

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Have you tried keyframing on/off the relevant render layers ?
Either press I or RMB/insert keyframe over the renderlayer tickbox

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That has done the trick! Thanks once again, Richard! I am not sure which amazes me most - the fact Blender seems to do EVERYTHING, or how quickly the community on here reply to help!!