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[Closed] Accessing Make Preview dialog options through either Maxscript or Python

Hello all,

I’m trying to write a script that automatically sets all the Make Preview dialog settings in a correct manner to intergrate it in my pipeline tools…

The main thing I want to do is set the make preview dialog output to a custom folder and file location through either maxscript or maxplus.

So far I’ve only found solutions that actually output a preview through script/code. ( createPreview() for example and other solutions ) But nothing that only sets the make preview Output dialog. I do not want to write a whole custom previewing tool for this if possible :banghead:

It puzzles me that the max render dialog settings are easily accessed through scripting but not the preview dialog options… :surprised

Any ideas? Thanks!

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there are no methods in mxs to specify Preview output. The easiest and usually used solution is to rename default ‘preview’ file after it was made (saved).
see http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=98&t=1305703&highlight=createPreview

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