Is there a way on Vectorworks to make material id or render channels?

[Ami]

Hi,

I'm still very new to Vectorworks and want to know if is there is away to make a render channel (e.g. alpha channel) or material ID?   I enjoy manipulating my rendered photos after on photoshop as it just makes it easy using the wand tool to select a certain area of the photo. If there's a way of doing it can you please explain how?

Thanks

Edited June 18, 2020 by Ami

[Jeff Prince]

Interesting question, I would like to know how to accomplish this too.

 

You can export your render with an alpha channel.

thats handy for dropping your rendered objects onto a different background.

I’m not sure if it is possible to export each object with an alpha... I doubt it.

 

If it’s not possible, i suppose you could turn off classes or layers, render, and export each one individually.
Seems like a great job for a script if the scene was complicated, but it could present too much work in an image editor to reassemble.  It would be cool to have a render method that facilitated changing DOF after the fact. I had an actual camera that could do that.