+Render Layer bakes all the animation layers of one particular color group together.
-Render Layer bakes all the animation layers of one particular color group together.
+- In the **Create** tab, pick `Render Layer`
+- Fill `variant`, type in the name that the final published RenderLayer should have according to the naming convention in your studio. *(L10, BG, Hero, etc.)*
+ - Color group will be renamed to the **variant** value
+- Choose color group from combobox
+ - or select a layer of a particular color and set combobox to **<Use selection>**
+- Hit `Create` button
-- Choose any amount of animation layers that need to be rendered together and assign them a color group.
-- Select any layer of a particular color
-- Go to `Creator` and choose `RenderLayer`.
-- In the `Subset`, type in the name that the final published RenderLayer should have according to the naming convention in your studio. *(L10, BG, Hero, etc.)*
-- Press `Create`
-- When you run [publish](#publish), the whole color group will be rendered together and published as a single `RenderLayer`
+After creating a RenderLayer, choose any amount of animation layers that need to be rendered together and assign them the color group.
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+You can change `variant` later in **Publish** tab.
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-Render Passes are specific because they have to belong to a particular layer. If you try to create a render pass and did not create any render layers before, an error message will pop up.
-When you want to create `RenderPass`
-- choose one or several animation layers within one color group that you want to publish
-- In the Creator, pick `RenderPass`
-- Fill the `Subset` with the name of your pass, e.g. `Color`.
+When you want to create Render Pass
+- choose one or several TVPaint layers.
+- in the **Create** tab, pick `Render Pass`.
+- fill the `variant` with desired name of pass, e.g. `Color`.
+- select the Render Layer you want the Render Pass to belong to from the combobox.
+ - if you don't see new Render Layer try refresh first.
- Press `Create`
+After creating a Render Pass, selected the TVPaint layers that should be marked with color group of Render Layer.
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+You can change `variant` or Render Layer later in **Publish** tab.
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+You cannot change TVPaint layer name once you mark it as part of Render Pass. You would have to remove created Render Pass and create it again with new TVPaint layer name.
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-Now that you have created the required instances, you can publish them via `Publish` tool.
-- Click on `Publish` in OpenPype Tools menu.
-- wait until all instances are collected.
-- You can check on the left side whether all your instances have been created and are ready for publishing.
+Now that you have created the required instances, you can publish them.
- Fill the comment on the bottom of the window.
-- Press the `Play` button to publish
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