Hello.
I have a city and for whatever reason I need to render it from the top view. The mesh of the city object is in square and I need to render each square from the top view and save the rendered image in whatever format but sequential numbering. I already did that manually but since I have to render about 500 squares, it would take so much time.
So I need a 3D Max script to do that automatically. But I don’t know how to write it. Then I decided to ask you professionals to help me.
Here in the image you may see what I want the script to do. It is nothing so special, I want to start rendering from one XYZ and then jump to another XYZ and do this repeatedly till it finishes rendering the last one.
3DS Max Automated Rendering Script Concept- Image
I thank you a lot if you help. Best.
first, you will have to create one camera, and work just with regions, because if you create n cameras for every sqare that you show, then you will not have one accurate render image.
Yeah, I meant one camera that moves like the orange pattern shown in the image.
I didn’t test it yet, but you could play with this code a bit
(
local fnam = getFilenameFile rendOutputFilename
local outputPath = getFilenamePath rendOutputFilename
local outputType = getFilenameType rendOutputFilename
rendSaveFile = true
fn autren i j =
(
rendOutputFilename = (outputPath + fnam + i as string + j as string + outputType )
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)
for i = 1 to 4 do
(
for j= 1 to 4 do
(
autren i j
$.pos.x+=650
)
$.pos.y+=650
)
)
create a free camera and place it on the left top corner, it should move right.
Select the camera first
Thanks it worked but there is a bug there. Here is a debugged version. (the code below)
(
local fnam = getFilenameFile rendOutputFilename
local outputPath = getFilenamePath rendOutputFilename
local outputType = getFilenameType rendOutputFilename
local num = 0;
rendSaveFile = true
fn autren i j =
(
rendOutputFilename = (outputPath + fnam + num as string + outputType )
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num += 1
)
local posy = $.pos.y
for i = 1 to 24 do
(
$.pos.y = posy
for j= 1 to 21 do
(
autren i j
$.pos.y+=50000.063
)
$.pos.x+=50000.001
)
)
To the all game developers, you can use the script above to make mini map of your city (GTA SanAndreas style).
You need to center a free cam and then make it Orthographic and then use the script. You need to modify it tho,