There is probably an answer on the forum for this, however haven’t found it yet.
How to set output cache based on PFD sim box name?
Reason is because many separately simmed PFD boxes are being used in an assembly scene render and would be great to procedurally have their caches found when importing and need to avoid hard coding all the output caches when simming. Thanks!
Hey,
The caches are named like that by default.
Have you tried and was it not working, or just checking beforehand?
Check the info on “Simulation Cache Save Path” here: Phoenix for 3ds Max
The default $(scene_path) unrolls to $(dir)\$(scene)_Phoenix_frames\$(nodename)_####.aur, so the node name is there.
Hope this helps, cheers!
hmm ok tried nodename. will try again. it only wrote out the text as if quoted: $(nodename)
all other macros work fine (ie $scene, etc.)
let me rephrase that - i actually hard coded all of the path but added this after my hard code
$(nodename)_####.aur
so in essence i have in the output field: R:\some_path\$(nodename)_####.aur
will that not work?
fixed! user error ;D thank you!
yess, R:\some_path\$(nodename)_####.aur sounds right 