The new render setting Render selected objects works very well for my workflow. I can render only the material I want to render by selecting the material tag from the object manager, save the rendered images from picture viewer as PSD with layers, open them in Photoshop, and use the alpha layer to select the rendered area and copy/paste it to my previous rendering.
However, I've discovered that this does not work when the rendered object is an Instance Object. I use instance objects to render multiple copies in different configurations in the same scene. Somehow the Arnold renderer does not capture the material tag, or the selected object, from the original object that the Instance Object is referencing. Changing the Instance Mode doesn't make a difference.
Is this possible to fix? Are there workarounds?
Thank you.
