I was curious if anyone know of way of “peeking” at a maxfile’s settings, without actually causing it to “load”
What I would really like to do, is pull some of the render settings from one file into the current file, but I’d really like not to have to load the file, grab the settings and then reload the original file.
Cheers
Shane
ps – Yes I really do some weird things
Hi,
you could load the file with the render settings you want, save them as a presset,
and then load the presset in the new file.
Okay, that’s an idea, how exactly?
This might sound like a strange idea, but I am hoping to do this entirly from a script level.
We basically have a “render master” file (which contains a number of important settings) that we use to xref all the other seperate elements into from which we then render the file scene. The render length is generally in the animation scene, which is also been xrefed.
My ideas is to be able to populate some of these settings automatically, the time range been one of them.
Hay, thanks for the heads up though!
Cheers
Shane
look up renderpresets in the maxscript reference.
The general idea is:
save a presset:
loadmaxfile "MyFile.max"
renderpresets.SaveAll 0 (GetDir #renderPresets + "\\MyRenderPresset.rps")
load a presset:
loadmaxfile "SomeFile.max"
LoadAll 0 (GetDir #renderPresets + "\\MyRenderPresset.rps")
then render
That is certainly an interesting solution to the problem! Much appriciated
Shane