[Closed] Pre-Render

onetera

May 22, 2008 9:24 pm

usePreRendScript[font=Courier New](system BooleanClass)[/font]

preRendScript[font=Courier New] (system String): “”[/font]

I would like to make my script (ex. C:\ est.ms)go into the part of [Scene Dialog / Scripts / Pre-Render]

How can I use those script?

6 Replies

davestewart

May 22, 2008 9:24 pm

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t really understand what you’e asking. Can you be more clear?

system

May 22, 2008 9:24 pm

Guess the issue is to get the script path (c:\ est.ms) to appear within the pre-render edit text as well as the update of the button state.

I have tried to change those settings via max script and update the scene dialog (max 2k8), but it does not ‘visually’ update these settings, unlike every other setting that can be made within the scene dialog.

Kramsurfer

May 22, 2008 9:24 pm

You can, but you have to close the render dialog first…


(
local RDwasOpen = renderSceneDialog.isOpen()
if renderSceneDialog.isOpen() then renderSceneDialog.close()
preRendScript = "D:\	emp\\Wow2.ms"
usePreRendScript = true
if RDwasOpen then renderSceneDialog.open()
)

Klonsemann

May 22, 2008 9:24 pm

Hi there,

i just found this thread as i searched for “preRenderScript”.
I wonder if the “Execute Locally (Ignored by Network Rendering)” checkbox is accessable over MaxScript too ?

ZeBoxx2

May 22, 2008 9:24 pm

Looks like that was missed in the documentation rounds…

localPreRendScript = true|false

As per the aforementioned – close the render scene dialog first.

Edit: colleague just asked “if it’s not documented, how’d you find it?”. Good question – apropos is your friend:

apropos "local"

It’s a bit hit-and-miss; I figured if there -was- a parameter, then either “execute” or “local” would be part of its name. “execute” yielded only built-in function to evaluate strings as script code, but “local” yielded:


Local_Euler_XYZ (const MAXClass): Local_Euler_XYZ
stitchOps.simulateLocal (Primitive): simulateLocal()
stitchOps.stopLocalSimulation (Primitive): stopLocalSimulation()
nodeLocalBoundingBox (const Primitive): nodeLocalBoundingBox()
getLocalTime (const Primitive): getLocalTime()
scaledLocalToGlobal (const BipedGeneric): scaledLocalToGlobal()
globalToScaledLocal (const BipedGeneric): globalToScaledLocal()
globalToLocal (const BipedGeneric): globalToLocal()
localToGlobal (const BipedGeneric): localToGlobal()
scaledLocalToLocal (const BipedGeneric): scaledLocalToLocal()
localToScaledLocal (const BipedGeneric): localToScaledLocal()
localTime (system String): "2008-10-21 23:31:16"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (const HKey): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
[b]localPreRendScript (system BooleanClass): false[/b]
locals (const Primitive): locals()