In the current implementation, cryptomatte passes are connected to the node
and elements are picked by using the eyedropper tool on a special pick channel.
This design has two disadvantages - both connecting all passes individually
and always having to switch to the picker channel are tedious.
With the new design, the user selects the RenderLayer or Image from which the
Cryptomatte layers are directly loaded (the type of pass is determined by an
enum). This allows the node to automatically detect all relevant passes.
Then, when using the eyedropper tool, the operator looks up the selected
coordinates from the picked Image, Node backdrop or Clip and reads the picked
object directly from the Renderlayer/Image, therefore allowing to pick in any
context (e.g. by clicking on the Combined pass in the Image Viewer). The
sampled color is looked up in the metadata and the actual name is stored
in the cryptomatte node. This also allows to remove a hash by just removing
the name from the matte id.
Technically there is some loss of flexibility because the Cryptomatte pass
inputs can no longer be connected to other nodes, but since any compositing
done on them is likely to break the Cryptomatte system anyways, this isn't
really a concern in practise.
In the future, this would also allow to automatically translate values to names
by looking up the value in the associated metadata of the input, or to get a
better visualization of overlapping areas in the Pick output since we could
blend colors now that the output doesn't have to contain the exact value.
Idea + Original patch: Lucas Stockner
Reviewed By: Brecht van Lommel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3959
Use member initializer list for constructor.
Use `this->` for member function.
Introduced in rBef53859d24a9720882e3ca6c5415faefec6fb82c
Reviewed By: jbakker
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10653
Currently the compositor reads cryptomatte meta-data from the render
result. When loading a multilayer open exr file the meta-data was ignored.
This patch will also load the cryptomatte meta-data from multilayer open
exr files.
This enabled workflows where the rendering and compositing are done in
separate scenes or for future changes where the cryptomatte node will
use the meta-data for name matching and color picking.
Reviewed By: Sergey Sharybin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10384
This patch adds manifest parsing to Cryptomatte. Normally when loading
cryptomatte layer from an OpenEXR file the manifest contains data to
convert a hash to its original name of the object/material. In the
future we want to use this to support lookup of cryptomatte
hashes and show it to the user.
Currently this logic isn't available to users (for now), but is required
by D3959 where a new cryptomatte workflow is implemented.
