How to prevent image planes from rendering?

[Parmenides]

I have an image plane for lining up models for compositing later. However, I am unable to render an image without the image plane. I have hidden the image plane, I have turned off visibility in the attributes. Hidden the camera that it is attached to, and put it on a layer and turned off renderability. But it always renders. The only way is to delete it, there must be a simpler way?

Maya 2018.5, Arnold 3.1.1.1

[Stephen.Blair]

Set the Display Mode to None

[Parmenides]

Thanks. Can you be a little more specific? To me the Display Mode is the overall setting for Textured/WIreframe/Smoothshade. Are you talking about a setting in the attributes for the imageplane?

I have turned off: ImagePlane/Attribute/Display/Visibility & ImagePlaneShape/Attribute/Object Display/Visibility & /Hide on Playback. These turn off the image plane in the viewport but they still show up in Arnold RenderView. Thanks.

[Stephen.Blair]

The imagePlane object has a Display Mode attribute.

It's the third attribute from the very top of the Attribute Editor.

[Parmenides]

I don't have that option. Perhaps you are using a different version than 2018.5?

[Stephen.Blair · Accepted solution]

"third from the top"

You haven't expanded the top section of the Attribute Editor: the Image Plane Attributes section.

[Parmenides]

Yes that is it. What a strange place to put it when there are 3 checkboxes in the attributes for 'visibility' and 'playback' that don't hide it during rendering. Thanks for your patience.

[lee_griggs]

I believe Stephen means here:

[dave.cookL6ZQU]

@Derryl Rice If you need to do it a lot (I do) you might find this Python snippet useful. Saves me a lot of time...

'''sets the output of all image planes to None'''
imageplanes = cmds.ls(type = "imagePlane", r = True)


if len(imageplanes)!= 0:
   for i in imageplanes:
        cmds.setAttr(i + ".displayMode", 0)
else:
    print 'no image planes detected'

[Parmenides]

Thanks Dave, very useful.

[krzysztof.salek]

What if I'm using imagePlane + aiMatteShadow to get reflections????

[lee_griggs]

You can disable them here:

[vladbessogonov]

If you want to have no image planes in render - stay what you've been already told here. Just set Display mode to Off. If you want to have your planes visible in Transparency, Refl and Refr, set it to RGB, go further, Set Alpha Gain to 0. It will render the full image, but alpha should be set onto your modelling, not Image Plane Full White

[vladbessogonov]

In arnold, it have to mark the arnold tabs "visible in refl and refr" as well