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Elements & AOVs (arbitrary output variables)
Elements and AOV’s (Arbitrary Output Variables)
Beauty Elements :
Can be used to recreate the final image in a compositing package.
| Name | Type | Description | Info |
| DiffuseFilter | Beauty | Solid unlit colors normally from the diffuse slot in your material editor | Filtered |
| Lighting | Beauty | Filtered | |
| RawLighting | Raw Beauty | Unlike Lighting pass this includes values over 1. | Filtered |
| TotalLighting | Beauty | Filtered | |
| RawTotalLighting | Raw Beauty | Filtered | |
| GlobalIllumination | Beauty | Filtered | |
| RawGlobalIllumination | Raw Beauty | Unlike a GI pass this includes values over 1 as well. | Filtered |
| Reflection | Beauty | Shows only the reflection Color | Filtered |
| RawReflection | Raw Beauty | Unlike a Reflection pass this includes values over 1 as well. | Filtered |
| Refraction | Beauty | Shows only the refraction color | Filtered |
| RawRefraction | Raw Beauty | Unlike a Refraction pass this includes values over 1 as well. | Filtered |
| Specular | Beauty | Shows only the specular value | Filtered |
| Shadows | Beauty | Shows only the Shadow value (Shows as negative colors) | Filtered |
| Raw Shadow | Raw Beauty | Unlike a Shadow this includes values over 1 as well. | Filtered |
| SelfIllumination | Beauty | Filtered |
AOV (Arbitrary Output Variables):
Used as technical passes or non image passes.
Filter:
To filtered or not? You can basically think of filtering as Anti Aliasing. If your pass required a pixel color accuracy (i.e. velocity pass) you would want to turn off filtering
| Name | Type | Description | Info |
| Alpha | AOV | Gray scale of the alpha only (normally not used as the final image contains an alpha) | Filtered |
| Atmosphere | AOV | Renders only atmospherics FX | Filtered |
| Background | AOV | Renders only the background image | No Filter |
| BumpNormals | AOV | Renders the bump maps normal of a material | No Filter |
| Caustics | AOV | —- | No Filter |
| DRBucket | AOV | —- | No Filter |
| ExtraTex | AOV | RGB based elements used for masking | Filtered |
| Illuminance | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| LightSelect | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| MatteShadow | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| MtlID | AOV | —- | No Filter |
| MtlReflectGlossiness | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| MtlReflectHilightGlossiness | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| MtlReflectIOR | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| MtlRefractGlossiness | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| MtlSelect | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| Normals | AOV | Renders the normal of each object | No Filter |
| ObjectID | AOV | Also called object non-primary color element in 3dsmax | No Filter |
| ObjectSelect | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| ObjectRE | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| ReflectionFilter | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| RefractionFilter | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| RenderID | AOV | Each piece of geo is assigned a unique non-RGB color | No Filter |
| SampleRate | AOV | —- | Filter / No Filter |
| SampleInfo | AOV | —- | Filter / No Filter |
| SS2 | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| UnclampedColor | AOV | —- | Filtered |
| Velocity | AOV | Pixel velocity output as an image. Max velocity set to 1 and clamp velocity off when using float formats. | No Filter Max Velocity = 1 Clamp = off |
| WireColor | AOV | Also called object color in 3dsmax | No Filter |
| Zdepth | AOV | Pixel depth output as an image. Set clamp to off when using float formats | No Filter Clamp = off |