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=kz=

02-04-2003, 04:48 PM

Hi,

Does anyone know if there's a way to batch render a bunch of scene files? I know you can batch render passes in a scene, but is there a script kicking around that will go through the scene folder and render each specific scene?

Thanks in advance for any help.

ThE_JacO

02-04-2003, 05:48 PM

there's a distinction you need to make.
when you think about rendering a scene from the shell (or some passes.. whatever) you are NOT batch rendering, you are rendering from command line.

batch rendering needs... well a batch :)
create a text file, put rendering lines in it like if you were typing them in the command window/shell and rename it to .bat

starting that .bat file will run the commands in sequence one after the other, so when the first scene is done rendering it will start with the second line (scene) and so on.

you could also want to look into renderQ by Opacity ( www.renderq.net i think).

a more advanced way to do what you want (browsing a folder for scenes and start the rendering of them all) you can look into running a simple vbs that calls the FSO (FileSystemObject) or use the shell commands like for each (even in windows there's lots of automation you can get going from the command line, even more in nix systems).

hope this helped.

=kz=

02-05-2003, 01:45 AM

thanks for the reply.
I tried out renderQ and it works great!

Thanks! :thumbsup:

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