[Closed] Render Help

First, you have an array of four cameras, but the last two are missing the $ to denote a scene node.
Then you have a loop from 1 to FIVE, but you have FOUR cameras.
Then you render into a MAXScript bitmap r, but it cannot contain a SWF file. I am not even sure how well the render() method in MAXScript deals with SWFs. What you did would work with bitmap files like .TGA, .RPF, .EXR etc. You might want to try supplying the file name to the render() method instead using the outputfile: keyword.

Your file name wouldn’t work because a camera node cannot be a file name. You can use the NAME of the camera to build some file name though…

Also, you don’t need the i index, so you could say

for aCamera in cams do
(
r = render camera:aCamera fromframe:1 toframe:20 outputwidth:170 outputheight:120 \ outputfile:(GetDir #image + “\” + aCamera.name + “_.swf”)
)

     outputfile:([b](GetDir #image)[/b] + "\\" + aCamera.name + "_.swft")

There may be other problems, but that one jumps out at me…

Shane

This is probably a bit silly and it is a little hard to tell…until you paste into a proper text editor/the maxscript editor, but

r = render camera:aCamera fromframe:1 toframe:20 outputwidth:170 outputheight:120

This line ends with a newline…which seperates the next line from the current command…

Now if that doesn’t make sense, that’s okay, basically, the output: parameter MUST be on the same line…so, go back to you editor, jump to the start of “output” and press back space to move the parameter back onto the same line as the render command…should be okay then…at least it worked for me…

r = render camera:aCamera fromframe:1 toframe:20 outputwidth:170 outputheight:120 outputfile:((GetDir #image) + "\\" + aCamera.name + "_.swft")

Shane