Is there any way to render each mesh separately?

[amnesia]

I have an object composed of discreet meshes. I want to render each of these components out separately so they can be brought into an application and toggled on and off.

Currently I just open the scene, and using the layer panel I have to turn off the visibility on all but the mesh I want, render it, save as PNG, then go back and repeat the process for each mesh.

Is there a way to automate this?

[JA12]

@amnesia"

The above mesh is cylindrical, and that dark part at the bottom is actually the inside… is there any way to prevent that part from rendering?

This is the simplest way I can think of. Using material nodes.

That’s for Blender internal render, but the principle is the same on Cycles.

[amnesia]

@JA12

This is the simplest way I can think of. Using material nodes.

That did the trick, thank you so much for your help!