FumeFX "Smoke" Render Element?

Krakatoa for 3ds Max
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Rendering a PRTFume its easy to get the fire element, its just the Emission. Is there a way to only get the smoke part of the render as an element?
I tried sending the color to a custom data element but it seems to come out unshaded.
Thanks

2

Hi Jordan,

Currently, you can add a SpecificLight Render Element for each light in the scene and then combine them all into one Diffuse pass in post.

3

Thanks Bobo, that makes sense!
It would be good to have an All light pass available as a render element too.

4

I added a Selected Light element but get this error:

Krakatoa Error

channel_map.define_channel: Cannot add a channel named “_Element_Skull[L]_Fill_Spot01_252” to the channel map, because it is an invalid identifier name.

OK

We are running the latest beta version of 1.6.

5

As a temp. workaround, rename your light.
The name of the light is used in the name of the internal channel used by Krakatoa to store the light’s data, and I am quite sure “[” and “]” are not valid characters for a particle data channel name.
We should fix this by replacing any invalid characters with “_” when building the channel name. Sorry for the inconvenience!

6

Do I summarize correctly by saying that you would like a Render Element that is like the normal render result, except does not have the Emission portion? Then you could do Emission + NewElement = FullRender?

7

Yes exactly, that would be good!