Beauty AOVs
The Beauty AOVs are split into two categories, Beauty - Surfaces and Beauty - Volumes.
Beauty - Surfaces
These AOVs are RGB passes of various surface shading attributes.
Denoise Albedo AOV - Outputs the denoised albedo information.
Denoise Normal AOV - Outputs the denoised scene normal information.
Diffuse AOV - Outputs only the diffuse component of the scene.
Diffuse Direct AOV - Outputs only the single bounce direct of the scene. No indirect contribution.
Diffuse Filter (Beauty) AOV - Outputs only the non-shaded view of the scene, which are flat regions of the base color or albedo of each material.
Diffuse Indirect AOV - Outputs only indirectly-shaded diffuse pixels within the scene.
Emitters AOV - Outputs any light source or light-contributing pixels of the scene.
Environment AOV - Outputs any visible portion of the environment in the scene.
Reflection AOV - Outputs only those pixels that receive reflections in the scene.
Reflection Direct AOV - Outputs only those pixels that are directly reflecting light. No bounce reflections are included in this AOV.
Reflection Filter (Beauty) AOV - Outputs only those pixels that are receiving reflections in the scene. Output is grayscale. (check this)
Reflection Indirect AOV - Outputs only those pixels receiving indirect reflections.
Refraction AOV - Outputs any pixels receiving refractions in the scene.
Refraction Filter (Beauty) AOV - Outputs only the unshaded pixels receiving refractions in the scene.
Subsurface Scattering AOV - Outputs only the pixels illuminated by sub-surface scattering.
Transmission AOV - Outputs only those pixels that are transmitting light.
Transmission Filter (Beauty) AOV - Outputs only unshaded pixels transmitting light in the scene.
Beauty - Volumes
These are AOVS that pertain to volume information and shading.
Volume AOV - The volume AOV contains all samples that are scattered in a volume.
Volume Emission AOV - The volume emission AOV contains all of the samples where the camera ray hit a volume emitter.
Volume Mask AOV - The volume mask AOV contains absorption color and the contribution amount of a volume sample. This is a multiplication AOV. To composite volume AOVs, a typical formula would be: (allOtherBeautyPasses)*volume mask + volume + volume emission.
Volume Z-Depth Back AOV - The volume z-depth back AOV contains the back depth of all volume samples.
Volume Z-Depth Front AOV - The volume z-depth front AOV contains the front depth of all volume samples.