Maxscript problems

[mantragora]

Hi.

I just got new permissions so I can finally post in this section of forum. I'm posting link to post I made in Free forum.

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...ems#post564635

I hope you guys can help me.

Thanks.

BTW. If administrator could move/merge linked above post here it would be great.

[DanielBrew]

I haven't tried this but a possible workaround might be using the '3dsmaxcmd -preset' switch to change the render settings. If you only want to change the VRay settings only save the 'V-Ray Adv' tab when you make your .rdp file otherwise it will mess up the settings in common etc.

[mantragora]

Well, problem is that this needs to be modified dynamically. I want to send this to renderfarm and some things will be generated by different nodes and than put together, I can't use presets because I want to have possibility to modify every aspect of RenderSetup dialog always. With preset you can't do this because files are binary so can't modify them from outside. Anyway, I got some answer from support and it looks that not "Don't render final image" not working with "-preRenderScript" is added to list of bugs.

Any ideas how to solve second part of my question ?

[DanielBrew]

Well, problem is that this needs to be modified dynamically. I want to send this to renderfarm and some things will be generated by different nodes and than put together, I can't use presets because I want to have possibility to modify every aspect of RenderSetup dialog always. With preset you can't do this because files are binary so can't modify them from outside. Anyway, I got some answer from support and it looks that not "Don't render final image" not working with "-preRenderScript" is added to list of bugs.

Ok so presets aren't going to work for you, hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Any ideas how to solve second part of my question ?

It's difficult to say without seeing your code.

How are you changing the file extension in SplitRenderChannels? If you are simply changing the last 3 characters of 'renderers.current.output_splitfilename' then try passing a bitmap to the renderer using 'renderers.current.output_splitbitmap'.

[DanielBrew]

I've just had a quick play and this seems to work. Very crude but...

(
	rollout changeOutput "Change File Extension" width:160 height:100
	(
		fn setImg fileExt =
		(
			local fPath = (getDir #renderoutput + "\\" + fileExt)
			local bmap = bitmap 10 10 filename:fPath
			save bmap quiet:true
			renderers.current.output_splitbitmap = bmap
			renderers.current.output_splitfilename = fPath
		)
		
		button jpg_but "JPEG"
		button png_but "PNG"
		button tiff_but "TIFF"
		
		on jpg_but pressed do setImg "Test.jpg"
		on png_but pressed do setImg "Test.png"
		on tiff_but pressed do setImg "Test.tif"
	)
	createDialog changeOutput
)

[vlado]

See my reply here: http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...861#post564861

Best regards,
Vlado

[mantragora]

Very crude but...

...it works.

At least from those test I made. Thank you.

[DanielBrew]

You're welcome.

Going back to the first problem, it's not too difficult to write .rdp files dynamically. Have a look at 'renderpresets' in the mxs help.