Unreal Engine 5.4: Movie Render Graph, Layers & Passes

In this video, we're creating stunning visuals with Movie Render Queue, Render Layers, and Render Passes.
Environment pack - Rocky Swampy Planet:
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Ship from:
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= Timestamps =
00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Setting Up Movie Render Queue Project
00:40 - Post Process Settings
00:48 - Movie Render Graph
01:49 - Rendering a Single Layers
03:19 - Render
03:33 - Correcting Sky Sphere
03:44 - Rendering a Second Layer
04:45 - Spatial Sample Count
05:01 - TIP: Subgraphs
05:10 - Passes
05:35 - Reflection
06:08 - Material Ambient Occlusion
06:20 - Scene Depth
06:26 - Fix Banding
06:44 - Scene Depth Post Process Materials
06:50 - Combined Passes
07:13 - Render Error Fix
07:29 - Conclusion
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[@tiedtkeio]

Fantastic breakdown, thanks RF! 🤟

[@HussinKhan]

This is a gem! Thanks Shaun!

[@bbestbilala]

this was really useful, thanks again!

[@Rforge]

Glad to hear it!

[@MayorAwesome]

Great stuff!

[@dongraparesh]

very useful stuff thanks for sharing

[@Rforge]

Glad it was helpful!

[@shamelhaydar5662]

I finally know how to render Ambient Occluision passes in UE, thank you very much :)

[@anastascompany5828]

Cool. Improving my English with this one.

[@AshT8524]

This is amazing :O

[@Aquarica]

wooo, so happy this is here

[@gregoriocarreno]

Amazing

[@mazfrans9568]

Thank you, please also do for additional render movie passes

[@marc.kleinmann]

Great walkthrough - thx. Is there a way to render the scene depth to a separate layer?

[@VISDE]

Did you notice any render speed improvements by rendering the ship only compare to render the entire scene? Very helpful video btw! Love the short and clean demonstration! No need to watch it in x2!!

[@Rforge]

Hey! Not much of a speed reduction with rendering the ship only especially as its evaluating the lighting etc and then ONLY passing the ship through. Also thank you for the comment! Were trying to do fast tutorials (Maybe a little too fast haha) -Shaun

[@christopherw3897]

Very high quality thank you :). Although would prefer a slower approach.

[@albertusbodenstein1976]

Man.. this will take some time to get my head around this.. but thanks!

[@Rforge]

You can do it!

[@syednibras8301]

Hello sir, I really appreciate you for making this video I just wanted to how can I render a light pass, fog pass using this?

[@epheros9660]

Awesome video! Just a bit of a problem on my end, when I render just like @3:24 my background is black, not checkered. Any idea what caused it? Edit: Caused by Post Process Materials. Would still like to know some workaround though if someone knows.

[@iamhere56]

Can you show how to use render passes like ao,scene depth etc in davanci resolve

[@marc.kleinmann]

So I'm having issues getting a depth pass rendered. It renders fully black with this setup. What could be causing that?

[@jamshidm2218]

perfect one. i have one question, how to i render shadow pass ?, in this case, instead of "ShipOnly " what if i want ship and its shadows/reflection on the ground

[@epheros9660]

Not sure but I believe you can toggle "Cast shadows while hidden" on the Modifier node under visibility.

[@dding_one1389]

could you tell me how to get the emissive pass?? there is blue boost pass(looks like emissive pass) at the intro of the video!

[@Rforge]

Hi there so for that I used a separate render layer with only the engine come materials (it looks like emissive)but it's really just another beauty pass just for the engines -Shaun

[@dding_one1389]

@@Rforge Thanks for reply! I got it. Love your tutorials. keep it up!

[@kunalbiswas3936]

How to make the path and make the spaceship follow it😊

[@outtoplay]

thanks for the Terrific Breakdown. But I'm curious... Does anyone feel this is a particularly streamlined workflow? For example, samples are in 2 different nodes? I do like the idea of nodes, but this is currently a chore.

[@Rforge]

Thank you! It does require some getting use to vs the movie render que, I think since its experimental more changes will be coming soon that make it cleaner and more intuitive hence the experimental tag -Shaun

[@outtoplay]

@@Rforge Yeah, It'll get cleaner as people experiment with it. Did you notice if Pass renders are any faster? Previously each pass cost the same additional time of a Beauty pass.

[@GLADIEWEB2023]

what kind of applications do you would use this for? I am just curious.

[@Rforge]

Hi! mostly in visual effects / post production. Rather than rendering the shot again you can use a popular tool like NUKE or Fusion / AfterEffects to make adjustments to certain parts of a pass to help it blend better into the scene (or add more) In the my case: I wanted the engines to GLOW blue. So i had a separate 'pass' with only the engines and then added glow to that in after effects. If i would just add glow to the whole image, it would take me more effort to isolate those engines / animating the mask etc Hope this helps! Shaun

[@GLADIEWEB2023]

@@Rforge awesome

[@marcesmack]

Great video. I think this is useful if you want to export pngs for static scenarios as well as cinematics.

[@EMNM66]

Can you make a detailed tutorial on render passes. I think it would be helpful thanks

[@Rforge]

Hi! Sure what would you like us to add ? -Shaun

[@EMNM66]

@@Rforge thank you for the reply, personally i wanted to know how to add passes in respected folder than everything in one also best way to edit it in resolve :)

[@kennielim2024]

Hi, when I add passes into the "Additional Post Process Materials" I missing a MovieRenderQueue_Reflections? The only ones i have is.. MoviePipeline_StencilCutout MovieRenderQueue_AmbientOcclusion MovieRenderQueue_MotionVectors MovieRenderQueue_WorldDepth MovieRenderQueue_WorldNormal MovieRenderQueue_WorldPos

[@Rforge]

Hi So Reflections I got from the other folder, I renamed it reflections for ease of understanding but thanks for pointing that out, you can find it here Engine/Content/BufferVisualization/Roughness -Shaun

[@kennielim2024]

Hi Shaun! Thankyou so much for the reply!

[@iPEMiC.]

How to render Niagara particles separately in a scene?

[@bartekweber1194]

I did it by making a houldout for everything else and changing Deffered Renderer View Index Mode to Unlit - worked for my case as the particles were near the camera, but probably can work for yours too :)

[@red4666]

But why is AO all white with Lumen though?

[@Rforge]

Hi! the AO pass will only show the AO maps applied to each material not that AO you get from an unbiased render

[@user-ev4ud5xs2j]

Okay, okay, can you speak slower? . . .