How do I render to elements separate for each light source

[Anonymous]

Hi Everybody

Back here after many many years.

I am wondering if there is a way in a single render pass to render to elements separately for each light source. This would give a lot of flexibility when compositing. Lets say I have three light sources. I want for example the diffuse render element separate for each light source. I do not want to switch on one light at a time and render. That would involve three renders and if each render takes 15 hours or so, it would take very long to do all three renders, one for each light. I want to be able to get the render elements to be output for each separate light in a single render pass. Is this possible? and how?

Thanks in advance.

Regards

Rasheed

[BenBisares · Accepted solution]

I believe that States Sets should be what you're looking for (Rendering > State Sets...). You can create sets for each light and then perform a "Render All States".

Thoughts?

[Anonymous]

Hi Ben. Great to hear from you again. Sorry for the late reply, but have been really busy. I was not aware or used State Sets before this. Yes, this is definately a solution. Thanks a million for pointing me in the correct direction.

BTW, on a side note, how did posting to the forums, automatically translate into an Autodesk Support Case. Were you involved, or is every post here taken as a support case?

Thanks once again.

Regards

Rasheed

[BenBisares]

Hi Rasheed,

Good to hear from you too; it's been a while.

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