C4D Multipass Path

Good morning!

New Deadline user – please excuse any bonehead questions. :slight_smile:

Are we still bound by C4D’s multipass render path neuroses? Specifically, I’d like each pass to go into its own dir. Barring that, I’d like ALL passes (main & multi) to go into a “renders” dir. But all I’ve been able to manage is to render the main pass into the same dir as the project file, and the multipasses into a separate dir.

Am I doing it wrong? I’m using R12 – haven’t tried yet with R13. Somebody tell me there’s hope?

–Rob

Hi Rob,

Because we just use C4D’s command line renderer, there isn’t a way to override how C4D writes out it’s output. The command line app only accepts a main image output path and a multipass output path, so we’re basically tied to that.

That being said, you could probably write either a post job script or an event plugin that could copy the frames to a different location after the render finishes:
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … ptingjobs/
thinkboxsoftware.com/deadlin … teventsdk/

Cheers,

  • Ryan

Hi Ryan,

That’s what I figured. Thanks.

–Rob