CGTalk - Shutting Down Max

Andrew Howe

04-20-2005, 06:03 AM

Hi.

I was wondering if there was a way to program 3DS Max 7 to automatically shutdown after finishing rendering a scene. I don't know if this is built inot Max and I've simply missed the function or if this has to be programmed as an external event with Video Post.

Thanks for any help you can give.

LoneRobot

04-20-2005, 09:38 AM

i assume you cant use the network render for some reason and you have to render a file locally????

it's not what you ask for but other than that you can specify a post render callback through Maxscript. What this does is execute a script that is triggered by the end of a render. This could be something as simple as the quitMAX() or quitMAX #noPrompt
It takes a little setting up but is not too difficult.

run this script before you start to render a scene -

fn quitapp =
(
callbacks.removeScripts id:#closemax
quitMAX #noPrompt
)

callbacks.addScript #postRender "quitapp()" id:#closemax

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