Thought I post a Backburner hack and some telnet info for those still struggling to network render with backburner… ( Like us… Uhhggg… ) I’ve writte…

I’ve used max’s dynamic arrays to “recurse” things… it’s a cheat but it works… just make sure you’ve lotsa memory allotted to MaxScript… fn testFunc…

Test code: Your situation is something like this? Off the top of my head, I think this is the best case in maxscript… maybe in DotNet you could go f…

Yeah, I think many of us have written at LEAST one submittal dialog… it a great learning experience into the world of BackBurner… I promise you’ll be …

the most basic submittal script I can write… just change the ManagerName var to be the name of your manager… and of course the name and priority… Wh…

You’ll want to check out “NetRender Interface” in the maxScript help… You don’t need to mess with the queue control. I’ve found it’s not required to…

“The developer says it can’t be done.” Interesting… Is he using the built in progress bar at the bottom of the screen? I had that issue when using …

Brilliant… nice work… I love the clipboard pass…

Can u use the renderer? Maybe a quick scan line render. Plane, Camera, standard mat 100% lum with colormapping enabled and knock out the blue and gr…

I can’t image it’s faster… but you can try it… Example of pixel handling in dotnet…

I’m thinking this is faster… python with the pil module… SplitRGB.py import Image import sys im = Image.open(sys.argv[1]) (r,g,b) = im….

If you know the region you’ve rendered, just save that part… fn SaveRenderedRegion SaveFilename Region DisplayBitmap:False = ( local Bit…

No issue here… other than the standard Max not releasing memory build up while continuously opening files. Are you opening large files or files with …

Very cool… I saw that class and dreamed of “free[ing] the processing from the main max UI thread…” on a few of our scripts and never got a chance to t…

Yes, Changing the xml requires a restart of the manager… a bit inconventent with 70 render nodes… Not really an option… I’ve been making progress, b…