I don't know how I can explain this but my problem is that in my maya animations, I want to put some compositing effects behind front objects but in front of rear objects.
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I could just do a layer render while hide everything but the guy in front but the problem with that is that I don't get the shadow casts from other objects or the correct lighting. is there any posible way to get the exact correct renders but in multiple layers? thanks