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Dealing with a dense scenes, part 3: ID mask

Dealing with a dense scenes, part 3: ID mask - Blender Tutorial

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Dealing with a dense scenes, part 3: ID mask

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- [Instructor] We're going to continue our journey down managing dense data, and in this week we're going to focus on what happens when you render an image. Now it's really easy to manage data as you've seen with layers and groups before you render, but after you render, you're kind of out of luck, right? Well no, actually Blender has a lot of nifty little options that I'm going to show you on how to manage all of your complex data inside of Blender. Now let's simplify our lives here, we're just going to take this cube and move it over here, and I'm going to open this up here, I'm going to switch to cycles, and then I'm going to come over here, material. Let's just go ahead and use nodes, and it doesn't really matter what color, I'm just going to pick a color. Now with this cube selected, I'm going to shift d a couple of times, then I'm going to shift d and come over here, shift d a few more times, and then finally, I will add a token monkey, alright. Now these over here, I'm going to…

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