I have an automated tool that allows my animators to submit to the farm, and we are using Vray as our renderer. In order to make settings changes, Vray requires a temporary use of a UI license. Unfortunately sometimes we run out, and the settings do not get changed, creating a bad render.
Is there any way to query license availability? I didnt see anything anywhere, but I may have overlooked it. I tried to create a work around by querying if “.output_on==true” before submission, but it appears to be giving me a false positive. The script should throw a notice and stop “.output_on==false”. None of the animators have seen this notice, yet Im still getting bad renders.
nothing to detect license availability that i know of.
re: “output_on”
i don’t think you need a license to read/write the settings via maxscript but i also don’t recall trying it without a license…
if there was no UI license available no one would have been able to change any settings. they would have been locked out by vray
post some code. maybe there’s something you overlooked.
if you cant post all of it at least try to isolate the part that’s giving you false positive