Unreal Engine 5.4: Movie Render Graph, Layers & Passes

[@OliverKane-i6w]

Thank you so much!

[@HakanYilmazAbstractizm]

AWESOME!

[@HussinKhan]

This is a gem! Thanks Shaun!

[@shamelhaydar5662]

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

[@christopherw3897]

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

[@tiedtkeio]

Fantastic breakdown, thanks RF! 🤟

[@mitchellrcohen]

Amazing! I’m gonna use this to troubleshoot my issue. Animated lights don’t render out of sequencer!!! Take recorder/ viewport and in game all look perfect. Regular lights render.

[@anastascompany5828]

Cool. Improving my English with this one.

[@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

[@Aquarica]

wooo, so happy this is here

[@bbestbilala]

this was really useful, thanks again!

[@Rforge]

Glad to hear it!

[@dongraparesh]

very useful stuff thanks for sharing

[@Rforge]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ryanjstever]

This was great! Have you tried separating all lighting components found in PPV for Path Tracing? ie Emissive, Spec, InDirect Spec, Volume etc.. Right now it looks like we can sort of do it in the Path Tracer node but we are limited to just being able to turn off specular and the others do not work. Essentially, would be nice to be able to rebuild a beauty for post.

[@Rforge]

I do want to play around with this more I have a feeling once they flesh this out we will get things like light linking passes as well, I'm holding off of pushing it too much as in my experience in the past with a feature that is experimental it changes a ton. I'm waiting for a big update. Ideally I'd like one deep file with all the passes in it That I can take to nuke and extract data

[@marc.kleinmann]

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

[@albertusbodenstein1976]

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

[@Rforge]

You can do it!

[@AshT8524]

This is amazing :O

[@gregoriocarreno]

Amazing

[@mazfrans9568]

Thank you, please also do for additional render movie passes

[@MayorAwesome]

Great stuff!

[@ahmedsabrah4133]

when i add the the render passes in the post process material they are all blank in the render how can i fix this ?

[@romeoinferno]

Thanks for recording such a great tutorial. I followed everything you did but my render layers are rendering out with some transperacy for some reason. Almost like a 50% opacity. Is there something I'm missing? Thanks!

[@romeoinferno]

Just more information. This is only happening with holdout. When the elements are hidden the render layer is solid.

[@davesturchcgi]

Where are the object IDs? Can't seem to find them anywhere.

[@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!

[@hanson251985]

ok but how to render objects id like in old way? Cheers

[@marc.kleinmann]

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

[@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?

[@JasonAdank]

Is it possible to get the object IDs from the render graph method? I know how to do it with the standard MRQ, but I cant seem to find a way to 'add' it in here....

[@KillerDudeT19]

So i can set this all up after i have finished creating my render? or do i need to start this at the beginning of the project?

[@Rforge]

You could have the tags filter setup and just flag your actors during the projects production

[@dan323609]

I want hide ALL except SINGLE ACTOR how?

[@jamit63]

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.

[@marcesmack]

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

[@iamhere56]

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

[@kunalbiswas3936]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@shauncomly]

They are in two different nodes because you can only set Temporal Samples per job but you can set Spatial samples per layer.

[@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 :)

[@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!

[@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

[@shauncomly]

Lumen disables SSAO and calculates its own.

[@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.

[@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 :)

[@yonghengshouhu]

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