Hi Folks,
I need some help – quick! I have to render 10 shots tonight, foreground then background passes. I want to script it, quick and dirty, but am under such pressure to get the animation finished I may have to do 20 manual submits.
I’m doing the following:
1 – Grabbing all my cameras into an array
2 – Setting filename and path based on camera names
3 – Setting start and end frames based on camera transform keys
4 – Showing hiding geometry based on layers
5 – Clicking “Render Scene” and then manually inputting the Job name, clicking Connect then Submit.
So — is there a way to automate step 5?
Any help sure would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
Ok – I got it. Max rocks!
OK – small problem.
Once I’ve submitted the job, I seem to be unable to click on the job in the queue and edit or even delete it. Can anyone shed any light on what I should do to get over this?
Thanks.
Here is a snippet of code I use in one of my scripts to submit to the queue:
on btn_net_render pressed do
(
render_open = false
if renderSceneDialog.isOpen() == true then
(
renderSceneDialog.close()
render_open = true
)
rendOutputFilename = (maxfilepath + (getFilenameFile maxfilename) + ".jpg")
setrendertype #view
MyManager = netrender.getmanager()
MyManager.connect #manual "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" -- the IP address
MyJob = MyManager.NewJob()
rendsavefile = false
MyJob.name = (getFilenameFile maxfilename)
MyJob.priority = 30
MyJob.frames = (filterstring (slidertime as string) "f")[1]
MyJob.FrameOutputName = rendOutputFilename
MyJob.skipOutputTest = true
MyJob.useallservers = true
MyJob.submit()
if render_open == true then renderSceneDialog.open()
)
Just change the name to fir yours and the IP address and it should work.
Thanks Anton,
I cracked it in the end. I think I was just a little stressed, but once I broke down the help topic it wasn’t quite as scary as I though it was going to be!
Cheers for yuor input,
Dave