Change default render settings

[TheScope]

Hi,
I would like to get V-Ray to always use _ as a render element separator.
I already edited vrayCreateRenderElementsTab.mel so that _ is the new default. But when I import the default render settings, the separator is resets to .
Is there any way to edit the default render settings?

Florian

[hermit.crab]

Modifying the V-Ray MEL scripts is not recommended. There isn't a way to change the default settings. You can use this post-translate script to change the separator to an underline:

from vray.utils import *
output = findByType('SettingsOutput')[0]
output.set('relements_divider', "_")

or

setAttr "vraySettings.fileNameRenderElementSeparator" -type "string" "_";

Alternatively, create a preset and manually edit the preset file and change this line as so:

"vraySettings.fileNameRenderElementSeparator": "_",

Note that the change will not be visible in the UI, but will be reflected internally.

[TheScope]

I found a way to set this automatically. Here is how.

Create a scriptJob in your userSetup.mel that calls a function whenever a scene is fully loaded.

scriptJob -event "PostSceneRead" setRenderElementSeparator;

Put this code inside a file called setRenderElementSeparator.mel and save it in your maya scripts folder.

global proc setRenderElementSeparator()
{
    setAttr "vraySettings.fileNameRenderElementSeparator" -type "string" "_";
}

setRenderElementSeparator();