Controlling Vantage by maxscript ?

[vladimir.nedev]

That's very interesting !
Can you list the exact steps you are doing, so we can figure out how to improve the responsiveness in the easiest way possible ?

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[npg]

VR-studio, I implemented saving to jpeg today (using the excellent libjpeg-turbo library). I made a quick test with a couple of scenes. Depending on the image contents the speedup compared to PNG at 720p is roughly as follows: 120 down to 20ms for a simple image with little detail and 440 down to 50ms for a more complex scene. The files are also about 3 times smaller.

We haven't implemented this earlier because it didn't seem necessary and JPG is a lossy format (you can always convert png to jpeg later). But we never imagined your particular use case.

This feature will come with the next Vantage update, but I'm not sure exactly when that is. I hope you can wait a bit

[Morne]

We finally got it working, thanks npg!!!

The time the image updates is a bit slow (about 7 seconds in total) but we could make this faster if the export is an JPG file (faster saving, upload an download).Triggering the save screenshot button after say 1 second of rendering could also speed up things. Besides this, if we could send the instructions directly to Vantage this would also save us some seconds.

So hopefully all of this will be possible in the future because then the possibilities could be endless.

You can try our demo here:
https://xr-group.nl/Apps/CloudRender...d_PKVantage_2/

That's super cool!
I'm also interested in whats needed to get that working

[gijs_bazelmans]

Hello!
A little follow up; We have been using this to great effect. I am currently building a turntable rendering function, which uses a combination of this, with the VRaySDK. however I have noticed that if I have a VRayScene with an animated camera in it, and then proceed to post something like:

$""command":"startLiveLinkSequence","path":\ "{URL}", "width":"
+ 800 + ", "height":" + 800 + ","samples":5", "startFrame":0, "endFrame":11";

It does not render beyond frame 0, furthermore, once the livelink is established, I cannot even drag the timeline to another frame (or rather, i can, but the animation does not follow). is there any way I could tackle this issue?