automating animation setup sequence

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Ok:
one thing I’d like is to find/setup a script to automate the animation setup sequence between the folowing two steps:

1) seting up an irradiace map to render every N frames

2) then have to manually reset the render to render the whole animation w/ that saved irradiace map.

right now, i have to wait for the irradace map to calc. then manually reset the render to render w/ that imap…the whole anim.

A way to automate that would be really nice!! so you can hit render and it will do that straight through…and one can leave it for the night.

paul.

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You can easily write a MaxScript for that.

Best regards,
Vlado

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easily…sure… :wink:

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hehehe…well that’s the problem, I don’t have scripting skills as far as max goes… :sweat_smile: …otherwise I porbably would’ve.

paul.

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It is probably not more than 10 lines of scripting and can save you a lot of work… so it may be worth looking into :slight_smile:

Best regards,
Vlado

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I was thinking of two methods that might also work to speed this up:

1. incremental add to saved map - so that network rendering could pick up where another left off

2. save to sequential maps - so that imaps could be rendered over the network to seperate machines, each saving their own imap with frame # appended to be merged with imap viewer - or imap viewer like routine