Depth option in Render Layers Node

[Mark Terry]

Hey there. At Minute 36 (Pillars IV), you refer to putting the “Depth” connection to the Vector Blur node. For some reason my Render Layers node doesn’t have that option. I turned on the Vector Data on in the Layer properties and I rerendered the scene. Am I forgetting to do something? Thanks!

[Omar Domenech]

You have to be in Cycles and enable the Z pass and it will appear as Depth in the node:

[Kent Trammell]

Omar is correct. It’s often referred to as “Z-depth” because a camera’s orientation is X for horizontal, Y for vertical, and Z for forward/backward.

But wow, this is unintuitive isn’t it…check “Z” to get the “Depth” socket in the render layers node 🤦‍♂️

[Omar Domenech]

What I do is think of it as Depthz

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