currentTime during rendering

[Bobo]

Hi all max scripters, I have a problem using the script operator in pFlow. i can not acsess the currentTime systemglobals during rendering.

i want to change the frame number of the ifl to match the frame that is being rendered.



I just came back to Europe and don't have Max installed on the machine I am posting from, but check out the default Birth Script operator's code- IIRC, it shows an example how to detect the actual evaluation time of a ParticleContainer. Note that there are two times you can access - the start and the end of the evaluation range which is dependent on the sub-frame sampling... Also, most times in PFlow are in Ticks, so you will have to convert the result to frames by dividing by TicksPerFrame.

[Tibys]

Trust this Man, Bobo is the master of max script.

[D_WE]

Thanks Bobo, and yeah you are the man.. :)

Problem solved,

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tStart = pCont.getTimeStart() as float
curFrame = ((tStart*framerate/4800)+1)
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/cheers

DW

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