Maxscript reference for corona functions

Corona Corona for 3ds Max Help Required
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hello, im trying to write a few tools to speed up/facilitate a few things in our workflow but i can’t find any documentation referencing /descripting methods available to maxscript concerning corona (access to render elements, and so on)
Any information would be welcome
ps :i saw a link to a wiki that seems to not exist anymore.

thanks

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Hi, sorry, we are deprecating our old wiki and will move the data from there to our documentation portal ASAP.
Can you list the exact things you are interested in?

I can also suggest using:

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Hi,

Some more handy Maxscript I found over the years to speed up Corona Workflow;

Denoise set to on with all Render Elements:

 (
	(	
		local RE= maxOps.GetCurRenderElementMgr()
		local REcount=re.NumRenderElements()
		--for i=0 to (re.NumRenderElements())-1 where (findstring ((re.GetRenderElement i)as string) "LightSelect") != undefined do 
		if REcount != 0 then
		(	for i=0 to REcount-1 where (hasproperty (local El=(re.GetRenderElement i)) #usedenoise) do 
			(	if El.usedenoise then
				(	format (El.elementname+": skipped because UseDenoise is already enabled\n")
				)	else
				(	El.usedenoise= true
					format (El.elementname+".UseDenoise: "+(if El.usedenoise then "Enabled" else "Disabled")+"\n")
				)
			)
		)	else
		(	messagebox "Your RenderElements is empty :)" title:"Denoise all RenderElements"
		)
	)
)

Clear Render Element File Paths:

re = maxOps.GetCurRenderElementMgr()
for i = 0 to re.NumRenderElements()  do re.SetRenderElementFilename i ""

Create Render Elements:

(
	-- set a list of render elements.
	elementlist = #(CESSENTIAL_Reflect, CESSENTIAL_Refract, CESSENTIAL_Translucency, CMasking_ID, CShading_Albedo, CShading_Alpha, CShading_Lightmix, CShading_Lightselect, CShading_Shadows, CMasking_WireColor, CTexmap)

	re = maxOps.GetCurRenderElementMgr() -- get the current render element manager
	re.removeallrenderelements() -- remove all renderelements
	re.numrenderelements() -- get number of render elements

	theManager = maxOps.GetRenderElementMgr #Production
	theManager.numrenderelements()
	rendoutputfilename = "c:\\test.tif"
	-- adds all renderelements to be rendered.
	for n in elementlist do
	(
	re.addrenderelement (n elementname:("OMP_" + (n as string)))
	format "\nAdded % renderelement" n
	)
	rendsavefile = true
	setsilentmode true -- used to avoid error message when checking the filename of element
	renderSceneDialog.open() -- open Render Dialog -- get all render elements set and return name of render element and output filename
	for n = 0 to (theManager.numrenderelements () - 1) do
	(
	el = re.getrenderelement n
	format "\nGetting % render element" el.elementname
	format "\nRender element outputfilename: %" (re.GetRenderElementFileName n)
	)
)

Show Corona Material Library:

(
			CoronaMaterialLibrary.MaterialLibraryFp.showBrowserIfPossible true
		)

With all Render Setup Settings Maxscript functions, Render Setup Dialogue needs to be closed first, not open.
All credit to original authors.

Regards,

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Our Maxscript documentation is now available at Corona for 3ds Max
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