Maya Arnold Render Passes (AOV's) & Photoshop with ZDepth

UPDATE: New version of this tutorial now available: • Maya Arnold Rendering:...
The basics of string up AOV (arbitrary output values) in Maya and combine them in Photoshop. The ZDepht is a bit broken but you can still use it with a little tweaking. You might have to save it out as a .JPG by itself.
This is for a still frame, but the steps would be similar for a video and the steps in AE are pretty similar to PS. There are other compositing software that handles EXR files better, but this is the easiest path.

[@naudart34]

Awesome tutorial ! Is exactly what I needed to progress on my works

[@mpwzzz]

I'm not a lighting TD but I was advised to place AO directly on top of Diffuse and/or cast shadow passes as they are really one the same. Not above specular/reflection passes.

[@alomgir2975]

thank you man exr io was new for me. i was looking for this kind of solution

[@drne6244]

thanks a lot, i finally figured out zpass and PS

[@arturs.beberins3467]

Very Useful, thank you very much!!

[@allone.1454]

Thank you man. ❤️

[@kartiksadvij]

Thanks a lot man!

[@Atamone]

Nice!

[@ДмитрийАнатольевич-ш5б]

How to fix color change when exporting a file from maya to photoshop in exr format?

[@digimeth1216]

How do you render out a sequence e.g. 200 frames of a Z Depth Pass in Arnold? Can it even be done? Can't find a way to do it for the life of me and it's doing my head in.

[@connorzelinsky7133]

It's somewhat similar. I would switch the worldsapce on the top right to Rendering.
You do whatever render settings you would need for a single frame. Then, in the render settings, In the RS, for Frame/Animation, change it from single frame to name#.ext (that will be scenename#.exr, or whatever file format you save as).
Then, in the Rendering workspace, go to the Render dropdown window on the top and go to 'Batch Render'. It will take the render settings you already have and start doing a batch render. It will not show you the progress, but you can see the images rendering out in the images folder of your project.
Hope it helps.

[@vanesieg7097]

Greetings, can I open that same format in after for a video?

[@connorzelinsky7133]

Yes, you should be able to open an image sequence on EXR / openEXR images in AF or other compositing software.

[@operationsusfoods1354]

how to get the skydome as a AOV

[@harshilpaliwad8392]

Bro What You Do with ID?

[@connorzelinsky7133]

Nothing in this example, but every object will have a different color. It makes for easy selections if you want to edit a single object. It can be very helpful.