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command line renders made easy

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:20 pm
by cgbeige
This is a cross-post since I think it's very helpful and more people should know about OMC. For those who don't want to have to type out the path and variables repeatedly when doing command line renders, download On My Command (it's a free contextual menu utility): http://www.abracode.com/free/cmworkshop/OMC.zip and then open the OMCEdit program and import this script command: http://www.3eige.com/ars/maxwell_render_omc.zip. Unzip it first so you import the plist file. This lets you right click on an mxs file and then render it with popup input for how many SL you want (after installing, it will be listed under your Finder contextual menu in "More/rendering". It opens the terminal and takes care of the rest. Don't worry about the script - it's all very clear what it does and there's nothing potentially dangerous in it. It just takes your clicked file and uses the name as some variables:
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/Applications/Maxwell/64\ Bits\ Technology\ Preview\ /mxcl.app/Contents/MacOS/mxcl -d -mxs:__OBJ_PATH__ -th:0 -t:1000 -s:__DLG_INPUT_TEXT__ -o:__OBJ_PARENT_PATH__/__OBJ_NAME_NO_EXTENSION__.tif -mxi:__OBJ_PARENT_PATH__/__OBJ_NAME_NO_EXTENSION__.mxi
You can edit the text to make the file format whatever you want or change the output path if you want. Anyway, OMC is amazing and I use it all the time for other cl renders with Realflow or Maya.

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:42 pm
by cgbeige
here's a movie of it in action:

http://www.3eige.com/ars/OMCmaxwell.mov