I’m writing this topic because searching for methods on animation within Grasshopper results in many old threads and I’m very confused at this point.
So, with the new V-Ray 3.6 for Rhino and Grasshopper, what are the options? How can I export a sequence of renderings that is automatically rendered and saved when animating a slider in GH?
It seems to me if there was an input to the Export Scene component to launch the process automatically with a button / input, this could easily be done every time the GH definition updates. Why is rendering and exporting a scene only possible with a right mouse click? Or am I missing something obvious?
There is no solution available yet. Animation support is currently being developed.
This feature and a number of other improvements for V-Ray for Grasshopper will be included in the release of V-Ray Next for Rhino.
That’s unfortunate because the function is already there in my opinion. I could easily write a little script that would simply wait a few minutes and then update the GH definiton, triggering another scene export with a new file name - if the function to export could be triggered within GH and not via righ-click…
It’s a little bit frustrating. Grasshopper is about automating modeling and drawing production. If we need to flatten all data trees and we are not allowed to loop for batch rendering, VRay for gh becomes more like a strange curiosity than something I would incorporate in my workflow.
I wanted to follow up on this; I’m now in V-Ray Next and having a hard time understanding the relationship between animated geometry in Grasshopper and the Rhino animation function in V-Ray. I’d like to do an animated Render in Project, but the output option to Render Animation is within the Render component, which is sequenced before the Render in Project component. I can connect my Render component to Render in Project, but the only output options in that node are to output a camera animation or a sun animation. How do I render a Grasshopper definition within a scene? For reference, I’m looking at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp71E3dlCwQ and am not sure what is happening at 0:24, since I see no input for the water and rock geometry on the Grasshopper side and there is no Render in Project component being used in the definition.