Advanced Layer Routing("Precompose") or Layer as Mask

[LuxNZ]

Hey Team,

Boring part:
So I have been trying to create a specific look for an artist we are designing a show for, But I am wanting to make it flexible in terms of compositing. Everything is rendered twice, one black, one white. The idea is too beable to have a layer that reveals the white and subtracts the black or vise versa. but I need to be able to do this to the back ground and the added objects separately, As resolume uses a layer hierarchy system its impossible for layer 4 to multiply layer 3 without effecting the other layers below.


---IDEA---

1. An advanced layer router that could "precompose" (for the AE users) 2 layers with a blend mode i.e:
Layer 1 - Background/Ambient Visual
Layer 2 - B&W Graphic
Layer 3 - 3D Visuals
Layer 4 - B&W Graphic
Now you want layer 4 to multiply layer 3 without affecting layer 1 & 2, If you had an "advanced layer router" on layer 5 mixing layer 4 & 3 with a multiply blend mode, Problem solved

2. So the other way I thought could achieve this would be having a layer as a mask for another layer, Just like you would expect a png too, With either RGB or Alpha.

Thoughts?

[Zoltán]

there has been talks about layer groups that could eventually do what you need,
but until then try this:

layer 1 - 3D Visuals
layer 2 - B&W Graphic from layer 4 - multiply happens here
layer 3 - layer router set to composition. - this is to grab the multiplied image
layer 4 - Background/Ambient Visual (should cover the entire composition - else insert a layer with black before this layer.)
layer 5 - B&W Graphic from layer 2
layer 6 - layer router set to layer 3. - to display the multiplied image.