callback and rendering

[Kramsurfer]

Why not just animate the visibility?

Your first nine objects will need to be single numbers, not '01' but '1'.

My objects where "box1" -> "Box300" you can change the prefix in the script in the getnodeby name function.



(
for i=1 to 300 do
(
TempNode = getnodeByName ("box"+( i as string))
if ( isValidNode TempNode == true ) do
(
-- create Controller and set to zero
local tnCont= Bezier_Float()
tnCont.value = 0.0
animate on
(
-- add invisible key before and after time you want it to be visible
tnKey = addNewKey tnCont (i-1)
tnKey = addNewKey tnCont (i+1)
-- add visible key at the time you want to see it
tnKey = addNewKey tnCont (i)
tnKey.value = 1.0
)
-- apply controller to node
TempNode.visibility.controller = tnCont
)
)
)

[realtimePixels]

thanks, i found many useful syntax tidbits in your script.

actully, i guess hidden or invisible my script demands a diffrent method.
i have too many polygons for keeping max stable.
i need to delete and add modifiers at each frame.
i currntly use the callback mathod that ends with a call to a render frame.


so... there is no way to have things happen depending on the current frame at render time?
setup(){}
draw(){}

[Kramsurfer]

Max does not like things changing in scene when rendering a range. If you have it working as you like on the slider, you can just call a series of individual renders, instead of trying to render a sequence.


for i= 1 to 300 do
(
sliderTime = i
render filename:("D:\\temp\\Fileout_"+(i as string)+".jpg")
)

[realtimePixels]

thanks so much,
just a quick typo, the render should get a outputfile: and not filename:

[Kramsurfer]

oh yeah... Sorry about that.. That's the problem with coding directly to the forum...

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