Distributed Render Toggle

[voltron7]

Wish for a toggle, on the vfg gui perhaps, to turn on and off DR by clicking a button...
Maybe a bit lazy but I'm spending too many clicks going through the render setup to accomplish this.

TIA

[MoonDoggie]

It's scriptable, I just checked. The command is:

renderers.current.system_distributedRender = true

If you need it to generate the file that it checks for for the slaves that's a bit more complicated. What were you think?

[voltron7]

oh, sorry about the late reply! I will try it out, but I really know nothing of scripting

[voltron7]

so, how would I use this efficiently?
Can I use that line of text to make a UI button?

Thanks again Colin!

P.S. I use relink script all the time and am going to have to send you another donation!

[MoonDoggie]

DR Off.ms.txt Turn DR Off Script

DR On.ms.txt Turn DR On Script

Rename the .ms.txt files to just .ms, the forums won't let me directly upload a .ms file :P.

Here you go, I wrote them into macroscript form for you so you can easily see how to do it yourself. It could have just been 5 lines, but I put in a check to make sure VRay was the current renderer, otherwise it would just throw an error if VRay wasn't. I'll go through one of them quickly.

DR On.ms

macroScript DR_ToggleOn category:"VRay" tooltip:"Toggle DR On" Icon:#("EditMesh",8) (
(
    if matchPattern (renderers.current as string) pattern:"*V_Ray_Adv*" then (
        renderers.current.system_distributedRender = true
    ) else (
        messageBox "V-Ray is not the current Renderer"
    )
)
)

macroScript DR_ToggleOn category:"VRay" tooltip:"Toggle DR On" Icon:#("EditMesh",8) (

macroscript <uniqueName> category:"<Drop down category that it'll be under in the toolbars>" Tooltip:"<Text describing the script"> Icon:#("Group name of the icon", <number of the icon)

The Icon: part is optional, default will list the tooltip as the button name

    if matchPattern (renderers.current as string) pattern:"*V_Ray_Adv*" then (

Checks to make sure V_Ray_Adv is somewhere in the renderer name string, if it is

        renderers.current.system_distributedRender = true

Turns on DR


Redonating for Relink Bitmaps? No Way! Thanks for donating the first time . It's currently installed on 13,696 computers, get some of them to donate, my student loans are killing me. But seriously, I got hired this year with a great company and I couldn't be happier here in Seattle.

-Colin

[voltron7]

Wow, that's great! Thanks so much Colin, I will try this as soon as my current rendering finishes.
Good to hear you are happy in Seattle!

Best regards,
JR

[voltron7]

Colin, Thank you, it works perfectly!

[MoonDoggie]

Any time at all friend.

[voltron7]

Really appreciate it, I think using this for just a few test renders saved me a lot of clicking, scrolling, and waiting for the slaves to be "ready."
I made a small toolbar for it and am wondering if I can somehow place the buttons in the VFB next to the newly added "render last" button....

Thanks again