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[glorybound]

Is there a way to see your V-Ray settings while you are rendering? Often, I want to see a setting that I am using, while I am rendering, but I have to cancel to do that. For instance, right now I want to see which AA filter I am using, because I forgot, but I have to cancel to see it.

[davexl]

Can't think of a way, other than opening the file in another copy of max. Assuming you saved before rendering.

[mitviz]

Is there a way to see your V-Ray settings while you are rendering? Often, I want to see a setting that I am using, while I am rendering, but I have to cancel to do that. For instance, right now I want to see which AA filter I am using, because I forgot, but I have to cancel to see it.

you read my mind! especially now am using bb, i leave it and come back and while its rendering i start to question a few things but don't want to reopen the file to see, which it came with the rendering dialog or the vfb, would be really useful imho

[Garryclarke]

What settings would you want to see?

[NicoC]

Well, exposing VRay settings to BackBurner, just as the other settings, would indeed be great ... just wondering how crappy this would be to integrated stuff in BB, when we already see the mess it can be to drive BB with maxscript, but that's another story :P

[MattClark]

You could try putting something like this in your startup scripts folder:

fn DumpVRayRenderSettings = 

		(
		vr=renderers.current
		propnames=getpropnames vr
		a=openfile "c:\VRayRenderSettings.txt" mode:"a"
		for n=1 to propnames.count do (format "%=%\n"(propnames[n]) (getproperty vr propnames[n]) to: a)
		close a
		)

callbacks.removescripts id:#VRaySettings
callbacks.addscript #preRender "DumpVRayRenderSettings()" id:#VRaySettings

That will dump your current render settings to a file called c:\VRayRenderSettings.txt at each render time. Not sure what happens on the network, if you were using Deadline it's easy enough to see and change settings, but as for BackBurner...it's been years since I've dared touch it.

[NicoC]

Not sure what happens on the network, if you were using Deadline it's easy enough to see and change settings, but as for BackBurner...it's been years since I've dared touch it.

Thanks Matt,
Ahhhh Deadline ... now that they've changed their pricing policy, I guess I'll have to give it a try. Yes, cost is the only remaining thing that keeps me using BB :P