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When I do a render and have forgotten to rename the output, the dialog prompts to overwrite or cancel. Which means cancel, open the scene manager, change the output name, then render again.

This gets a bit tiresome when doing a long series of renders.

Would be nice if I could revise / increment the output name from that overwrite dialog.

There's no way to avoid cancelling and setting the name in Scene Manager > Output, but I can see about popping up a dialog for setting a new name on the fly. It gets a bit ugly though, since the choice dialog only accommodates two choices, but I could change the "cancel" option to be a "choose another name or cancel" option, where cancelling out of that would really cancel.

Just to make sure you know, in the Output tab, you can also tell the plugin to auto-name outputs.

JDHill wrote:but I could change the "cancel" option to be a "choose another name or cancel" option, where cancelling out of that would really cancel.

That would be what I'm looking for. Don't mind having to press cancel twice to actually cancel since that situation would almost never come up in my own use. Rename option would resolve that. The only reason I would cancel is if I accidentally right clicked.

If I use the auto naming I have to manually rename the files before sending them off anyway so not sure it actually saves any time, plus opens up opportunities for confusion and mistakes.