Producing layer images (preview)

When taking a normal shot you can enable the Custom Layers AOV. This will render a separate image for each Custom Layer component present on your Forma product by culling out any mesh that is not a child of a given Custom Layer component.

Producing layers with ambient occlusion and reflections

To produce layers with ambient occlusion and reflections, you must:

• Enable raytracing and HDRP with DirectX12.
• Use the RTAO and RTR volumes.

Using layers in digital content creation (DCC) tools

From the Settings panel under Exports: Arbitrary Output Variables (AOVs) select "Layers" output type. This will export all selected AOVs in a single multipart EXR file that can be opened with the free Photoshop plugin https://www.exr-io.com/ as a pre-composited image.

Using layers with image on-demand

The "aov" argument can be used to specify a Custom Layer name. Please refer to Rendering with image on-demand for more details.