create a toolbar button to turn DR on or off

[leotchest]

can someone show me how to do this ?
I just want to be able to toggle distributed rendering on or off without having to open up the render dialog etc.
A "dummy's guide" would be great !

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

start script listner and then click on off on the button it will give you a command. then just drag that on ur toolbar and that should do the trick...

[leotchest]

thats what ive been doing - but nothing appears in the maxscript listener window. what could i be doing wrong ?

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

In listener settings make sure he is listening to everyhing. Just press random boxes one of them will do the trick :P I cant remember the name now.

[leotchest]

I have tried activating all the options - nothing works.
It does record actions from the main 3dsmax menus - but it records nothing from the render dialog.
what else could i be missing here ?

[NicoC]

Hello,

Basically :

vRayRender = renderers.current
vRayRender.system_distributedRender = off --sets DR off

or
vRayRender.system_distributedRender = on --sets DR on

I hope this will help you a bit

Cheers.

[leotchest]

thankyou - that does help. it works to turn DR OFF, but for some reason it does not work to turn it ON. I get the error -- Unknown property: "system_distributedRender" in undefined

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

vRayRender = renderers.current
vRayRender.system_distributedRender = on

[NicoC]

vRayRender = renderers.current
vRayRender.system_distributedRender = on

Sorry, yes, it seemed evident I was only showing how the code to enable / disable DR ... obviously, the variable VRayRender must be defined first.

[leotchest]

OK - thanks. i had realised it need the first sentence adding, but when i did it, it did not work - that was the problem. When i did it again from scratch (& dragged / dropped from listener again) it worked.
So - thankyou both for your help