Maxscript and Net rendering

[Bercon]

So am I to asume that this is a bug and there is no way around it other than manually sending every backburner job?

[PiXeL_MoNKeY]

Have you tried writing and using -cmdFile that defines what you want set? Then submit the job using 3dsmaxcmd.exe. I have had to use this in past versions of 3ds max to get proper TGA and EXR settings applied to scenes.

-Eric

[d3coy]

Hey Bercon,

I know the problem you speak of. Its very strange, but when manipulating the image io settings, they don't transfer over when netrendering. They will usually revert to some default, no matter what channels specified, etc. The workaround I found was to first make sure to call renderSceneDialog.close(). Then for each job, set the rendoutputfilename to a blank string, do your bitmap io code, then set the rendoutputfilename corresponding to your bitmap io file type accordingly. If you do this in a loop you need to explicitly set rendoutputfilename back to "" in order for it to work.

It seems strange, but it works for me. Tell me how it goes and if it doesn't work I can check my code for other strange nuances that might make it work. I believe this is a bug. When I last encountered this problem I also failed to find many people experiencing this (I assume because bitmapio is a rather obscure mxs topic).

[Kramsurfer]

That's the work around I found as well... even the manual file set output filename dialog is buggy... it's been that way forever....

[Jon-Huhn]

Thanks, James, for posting this solution. You just saved my bacon today on a render with a tight deadline.

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