Hey dudes and gals!
I was going to start writing a script that will capture data about my workflow during a max session. Basically, I want to know everything I am doing and the time stamp when it happens so I can plug it into a graph and see where my time sinks are. I have done some searching but can’t find something like this. If this tool already exists, I don’t want to reinvent it. If not, I will invent it.
Thanks!
that would be a great tool for a ‘mentally sick’ and/or ‘max addicted’ person, who doesn’t remember what he did yesterday, and how much time he spent doing it.
Then I will sell it for a kajillion dollerz in this industry!
seriously… what do you want to capture? we can capture all callbacks and node events, theoretically we can capture any mouse move/button click and keyboard press. we can monitor most of windows activity… probably i can monitor any max UI window/control getting focus…
and for sure i can monitor your internet activity
Haha!
Basically I want to know how much of my time is spent test rendering, working with materials, uvw’s, and animating since I do many of those tasks in parallel. I know how long I “feel” something takes, but I want to see real data.
Just high level stuff.
Modeling (All Poly/Mesh operations)
Lighting
Materials
Scripting
Animating
Rendering
The way I thought it would work is the script would be toggleable on.off. Then the script would execute every 30 seconds and write some properties to an xml file. What mode (list above) I was in, timestamp, maybe a couple of other properties depending on mode.