Re: 6.x rendermanager

["Morten Bartholdy" <xsi(at)colorshopvfx.dk>]

Cool - thanks David! Scripting is not my strong suit - I will give these a spin.

 

- MB

 

----- Original Message -----

From: David Auner

To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM

Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 5:17 PM

Subject: Re: 6.x rendermanager

At 17:08 22.08.2007, you wrote:

Actually Kim, I am frantically searching through all three PPG's and the Render Manager to try and make sure all passes render with the setings I want and wind up in each their output folder - the latter seems the most difficult now. This is of course because it is the first time I really use these PPG's i 6.x and I am in a big hurry because of looming deadlines. I am sure Kris is right I will get the hang of it and eventually appreciate the improved functionality but I still think there is some merit in having PPG's for stuff like this that I can grasp the second time I look at them, and in this implementation that is not the case.

Hi Morten ,

will you need to create these folders? If so try this piece of script:

dim scn, vers
scn = "scenename" 'Scene Name
vers = "1a"  'Scene/Render Version

Dim FSO
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
FSO.CreateFolder("M:\finals\"&scn)
FSO.CreateFolder("M:\finals\"&scn&"\shadows")
FSO.CreateFolder("M:\finals\"&scn&"\reflections")
FSO.CreateFolder("M:\finals\"&scn&"\reflection_matte")

Adjust the path names to your needs...

And then use this piece set them filenames and paths all at once:

SetValue "Passes.Default_Pass.Main.Filename", "finals\"&scn&"\"&scn&"_beauty_f"&vers&".####.tif"
SetValue "Passes.Shadow.Main.Filename", "finals\"&scn&"\shadows\"&scn&"_shadow_f"&vers&".####.tif"
SetValue "Passes.Reflection.Main.Filename", "finals\"&scn&"\reflections\"&scn&"_reflection_f"&vers&".####.tif"
SetValue "Passes.Reflection_Matte.Main.Filename", "finals\"&scn&"\reflection_matte\"&scn&"_reflection_matte_f"&vers&".####.tif"

Cheers, Dave

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