Script to delete output path of ALL render elements?

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Hi,

A previous company I worked at had a custom script for removing the Output path of ALL render elements at once, does anyone familiar with MaxScript know how I might go about making this? I’m being driven crazy by “Error Creating File Output” and finding Max has suddenly decided to try save all my elements to a random, non-existent network location.

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Hello,

First, close Render Setup window. Then try that:

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

Thanks to SugaR for this piece of code :smiley:

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same here, although I’m looking for a script that automaticaly sets the paths of all the render elements into the path of the “save as” for the main render -

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holy balls… i’ve seen so much help over the past few days, it’s rendering the-area absolete

thanks

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This works perfectly, thank you for sharing!

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the script to normalise the render elements to the path of the main render doesn’t seem to be supported in the latest max version :frowning: I’ll keep looking for something similar then, but thanks :smiley:

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Hmmm not tested myself. Maybe worth sending a message to the creator ?

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i did - no date on the updated version - “whenever” i suppose :smiley:

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Please try this guys

Save your file - go the the render elements tab and delete all your elements - Merge the elements from the file you just saved (there’s a merge button in the render elements tab)

When you merge them, they should reacquire the output that you have in the “save file”.

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In that case all mask elements lost his connections with objects it linked with, and need a lot of time to relink. All scripts above not works anymore. I know, a lot of time is gone, but it’s important to know in 2026 )) :heart: