Hello,

I have one question which does my head in. In Houdini 11, Mantra is coming with few default image planes (passes) and it seems that the most of them are not active and some other seems to have misleading titles.

For example the direct_diffuse gives you every lighting information (direct and indirect) including the shadows. At the same time indirect_diffuse gives nothing no matter which light you use (ex. Inderect Light). You can always use Light Export and get each light to a different pass and problem solved but… WHY? I cant let it go and I would love someone to solve this mistery, propably I'm missing something here.

There are other image planes with misleading names, direct_specular and indirect_specular gives nothing, and the specular highlights goes to direct_reflections when the reflections goes to indirect_reflections, which it's not totaly wrong but what's the point of specular passes and why leading industry softwares can't agree to have some standart names for every pass?

cheers