V-Ray Single Folder Rendering

[FruehBird]

When V-Ray renders, all files are under a single folder. I have a custom script that sorts the images into their correct folders after the render. However, If a user changes the Final Color Output name It is hard to determine which folder V-Ray will put the rendered images in. How is V-Ray determining which Render outputs path to render to? Is it just the first shade.color item in the shading tree?

[vladimir.nedev]

It just finds one shade.color render output in the shading tree, it's not well defined which one exactly if there are multiple.
Actually it might even find a render output that's not part of the shader, looking at the code.

The vray.render commands have options to specify the output file path and file extension, so if you are scripting the whole thing, you can use your own UI to get the file path from the user and give this directly to the vray.render commands, overriding the final color output in the scene.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[FruehBird]

The file paths and extensions that we set through our submitter grabs the path and extension connected to the Render output (some png and others exr). This ensures that each render output is being rendered to their specific folder (MODO's renderer). JobName>RenderOutPut>RenderPass>ImageFile

I am curious on how V-Ray is interpreting the file extension. If a render output is set to png16 and another set to exrTiled with the png16 be interpreted as just png and the exrTiled as just exr?

[vladimir.nedev]

I am curious on how V-Ray is interpreting the file extension. If a render output is set to png16 and another set to exrTiled with the png16 be interpreted as just png and the exrTiled as just exr?

It should respect this and create a 16-bit png or a tiled EXR.
Also for tiled EXRs the VFB will switch to a reduced preview mode to save on RAM and instead the buckets will be written to the EXR on disk directly.

Greettings,
Vladimir Nedev