Troubleshooting

Symptom

Cause and fix

Selection has speckled holes

Dithering. Use Render ID Pass, or press the panel's fix button, or export 16-bit.

Selection has a ragged fringe on edges

You are using the pass from a normal anti-aliased render. Use Render ID Pass.

Exported colours do not match the panel

A view transform is being applied. If you built your own File Output node, set its colour management to Standard/sRGB.

A material is missing from the pass

Its Render Method is Blended. Set it to Dithered.

A material renders black

Excluded, linked, or grease pencil.

The pass is absent from the render

The checkbox is off on the view layer you rendered.

Palette list is empty

The pass is switched off.

A new material has no colour yet

It is assigned before the next render. Press Refresh Palette to do it now.

Two colours look alike

Change Seed, switch to Max Contrast, or pin one. They are never actually identical.

Troubleshooting · Material ID · Fulford