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I am currently trying to save the depth using a technique under the following: Getting the depth of every pixel to the center of projection of the camera in Blender (effectively storing the mist pass in blender) inside an OpenEXR file. However, I intend to have only one single channel for the same containing just the mist data inside of it.

for this, I have tried to do the following setup under the compositor window:

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As can be seen through the properties of the node, I cannot see a way of creating an Open EXR file with just a single channel. I tried opening the file in python using OpenCV and getting a three-channel output.

Is this possible in blender? Can someone guide me with this?

Sourabh
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  • I'm not sure to get your question. Do you need to render a single render pass or a single RGB channel? – Emir Sep 29 '21 at 12:29
  • @Emir so currently using OpenCV, I see output for example like [ 11.02,11.02,11.02]. I believe this refers to three channels like an RGB image. However, I want to get an OpenEXR file having only a single channel something like [11.02] (consisting of the mist values) instead of a 3 channel output. Something similar to what we would have in a grayscale image. – Sourabh Sep 29 '21 at 12:48
  • @Emir I edited the question... I see I had used the word channel and pass interchangeably... sorry for that – Sourabh Sep 29 '21 at 20:04
  • Does this answer your question? How do use one channel from an image in a material? – Emir Sep 29 '21 at 22:20
  • Please correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't this require me to create an entirely new material? Can I not simply store just the values of a single pass(mist pass in my case) in an open EXR file having only one channel instead of the three that I am currently getting? – Sourabh Sep 30 '21 at 09:44

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