How to dump render layer into files ?

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#1

Hi,
I use blender+cycles to make interior CG.
I can’t find any method to dump render layer buffers (and reuse it a few days later).

  1. Does anyone know how to do it ?
  2. If blender didn’t implement this function, how to suggest developers to implement it ?

Thanks

#2

Render to Multilayer format.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Render/Output#Image_Formats

#3

There are other options but using a multilayer openexr format is by far the easiest to set up and handle afterwards.
http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?305078-Render-elements-of-a-scene-separately-and-then-combine-them&p=2453448&viewfull=1#post2453448

#4

Great!! It works. Thank you very much ~~

#5

I have find a good tutorial about how to use OpenExr Multilayer.


One problem is only “render animation” will dump files, “render image” won’t.
Hence I set the start and end frame to 0 in the timeline window and use “render animation” to replace “render image”.