Setup Cryptomatte - Arnold for Cinema4d

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Arnold supports Cryptomatte, an ID matte creation tool created by Jonah Friedman. It creates ID mattes automatically with support for motion blur, transparency, and depth of field. Names, object namespaces, and material names can be used to organize ID mattes in the scene.

The following Cryptomatte AOVs are available (see AOVs).

• crypto_asset: creates the same matte for all assets.
• crypto_material: creates a matte based on the assigned shader.
• crypto_object: creates a matte based on the object name.

Info: A simple scene file can be downloaded here.

The Setup cryptomatte command in the Arnold > Utilities menu adds all necessary shaders, drivers and AOVs to the scene:

• Creates a cryptomatte shader and assigns it to the AOV shader list in the Arnold Render Settings.

  

• Creates an EXR driver with the three cryptomatte AOVs (see above) and Merge AOVs turned on. You just have to specify the path of the EXR output in the driver.

  

Info: The Setup cryptomatte command also available as a python script.