no idea… I’m guessing ‘no’; our renderer uses its own VFB, but that’s all handled from within the renderer plugin, and no arbitrarily for any renderer. At the end of the rendering process, the Bitmap data still gets passed to the 3ds Max framebuffer (whether or not it displays being a property of the setting in the render scene dialog).
i wrote a dotnet VFB ish type thingy a while ago, it was two custom pictureboxes side by side, that allowed you to compare a stored image with the last rendered image. I think it adjusted the picture to display if the resolution was different and also allowed you to zoom and pan each one with the mouse. It might be what you are after, let me know and i’ll dig it out.
thank you Zeebox for your suggetions, I think dotnet will most probably do it.
Hi LoneRobot,
First of all I thank you for your work for COM wrapper it helped me a lot while doing photoshop interactivity within 3dsmax for my script,
Please povide link for your VFB code. I searched it on http://lonerobot.net/ but didnt find it.
thanks
ravi
hi bkravi,
it’s not on my site yet, I will try to post an entry shortly.
I’m glad my COM wrapper has hepled you! I will shortly be releasing a major upgrade that exposes nearly all the filters and some extra custom functions. watch this space!
I will wait for your code…