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Does Rhino have the ability to bring the rendered image back into a window
within Rhino when you stop the render. I know it creates a png an such, and
I can open that manually. But I saw a Maya tutorial by Mike V. that shows a
check box in General Settings that allows the image to open back in Maya ..

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You can open back in Maya, because it uses "Maya Render View" window, you can also keep renders on this window...but I'm afraid there's nothing like that in Rhino

iker wrote:You can open back in Maya, because it uses "Maya Render View" window, you can also keep renders on this window...but I'm afraid there's nothing like that in Rhino

Ok thanks .. I'm going to write a small app then, that detects the close of the
maxwell window, and launches the most recent png into it's window.

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Hi Noah,

Here ( RenderProgressMonitor @ http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... highlight= ) is a little app that will do something along these lines, though not exactly like the buffer in those other platforms. It was designed for monitoring the progress of MXCL on remote machines over your network. What it does is let you select an image file, then it monitors that file for changes - such as whenever MXCL writes an update. So basically, it always shows the most recent version of any given image file.

Optionally, you can set it into a mode where it also copies each version to a folder next to the watched image...so you can really end up with quite alot of versions stored there, but it makes it pretty hard to lose any version of a render. Eventually I mean to modify this little app into a render-history buffer like the one you're referring to in Maya and make it part of the plugin.

Cheers,

JD

Ah ok, then I will spend more time learning maxwell..

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