Polyviews Rendering Tools

Polyviews provides multiple tools to process automated rendering for multiple views and autosave the views in the specified location, also with their render passes.

Important!

Automated Batch Rendering / Queue Rendering can be stopped only by pressing ESC. When the render window is closed, addon will proceed to another view.

Autosave renders

Enabled autosave must be enabled and the correct path must be set, in order to proceed with Queue Rendering or Batch Rendering. To enable Autosave, press the Autosave Renders button in the Polyviews Renders subpanel.

When it's enabled, you will see the box to set up the autosave path and several other options below. To set up the path, press the folder icon right next to the box.

Duplicate existing output files

When this option is enabled, all render images will be saved as duplicates, if the file already exists. This prevents overriding the render outputs.

Create View Subfolder

When active, subfolder with the name of the rendered view will be created for autosave eg. ..//My Path//View_01, ..//My Path//View_02, etc.

Render / Animate Current View

By pressing this button, currently active view will be rendered (or animated if it's marked as animation), and autosaved if autosave is already enabled.

Render Queue

You can enqueue selected views to render them later one by one automatically. To use this option, Autosave Renders must be enabled with the correct path set and your project MUST be saved right before rendering. To add views to the queue, press the queue icon on the right of the views name or press Enqueue All button in the column on the right to add all views from the active filtering group. As mentioned in the views management docs, animations cannot be enqueued.

When file is saved and autosave path is set, the Render Queue button will be clickable. Press it to render your views

Batch Render

Batch render works similar to the Render Queue, but renders all enabled views. If any filter group is active, only enabled views from this group will be rendered. Like in the render queue, autosave renders must be enabled, filepath must be set correctly and your file must be saved.

Saving Render Passes

When saving Render Passes option is enabled in polyviews panel, any render passes enabled in Blender will be automatically saved next to your render output (or in the passes subfolder if you enable this option). For Cryptomatte or any material or object indexes, use the Custom Compositor Outputs

Custom Compositor Outputs

For more complex Compositor operations, Custom PV Outputs node can now be enabled. Selecting this option will create the specific node, that will be recongnized by the addon and all it's inputs will be always updated with the view names when the views will be switched.

Inside this node, create just any outputs using any names, excluding the '@' character that is used by the addon to separate custom name and the view name. When the view is switched, the view name will appear in the input name, and will be changed each time the view is switched. After creating inputs, you can just select the current view from the list to see the changes. This names will be also always applied when rendering (only from the Polyviews panel!)

Global Render Settings

As mentioned in Getting Started, polyviews is overwriting Blender render setting with its own settings. By the default, all views will be using render settings from the polyviews panel (unless global settings are disabled in their properties). That means that whenever the view is changed, polyviews will override the specified settings with the one from the panel (or from the view if custom settings are applied). Only the most important settings are in the polyviews, any other settings are still changed in their original locations.

Rendering Mode - Final / Preview

You can select the mode for your rendering which is Final or Preview. The Final mode will simply use the Global or Views rendering settings, without any modification. By selecting the Preview mode you can temporarily modify the resolution, sampling and output format. The settings from this box will override the global or view rendering settings. So you can modify the resolution here by setting the scaling percentage, change the samples count for the preview purpose or choose JPG instead of PNG for the smaller preview image size.