[Maximus3D]

Yup yup i agree, and i vote for this

/ Max

[j_man]

in the meantime you could run maxwell from the command line using a batch file that is scheculed to run at a certain time...


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[-Adrian]

Yes i agree, i'd like that feature aswell (in the gui).

[Tim Ellis]

Ditto, would be extremely useful.


Thanks,

Tim.

[3dtrialpractice]

in the meantime you could run maxwell from the command line using a batch file that is scheculed to run at a certain time...


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HUH?

how do yopu setup a .bat file to run at a specific time?!?

this comand would be of great help if you could explain!
acctually is there anywhere i could find a refrence that explains what kind of comands like this "run at specific time" there are available to run inside a .bat in specific orders times, maybe a way to setup a bat file so it runs a comand for a specific time and then stops it, upon which running another comand?
-thanks,

luke

[breberka]

absolutelly agree, but let them finish render first

[j_man]

HUH?

how do yopu setup a .bat file to run at a specific time?!?

It's a windows feature. look under the control panel for scheduled tasks and use the maxwell reference to make a batch file using the maxwell command line rendering. Then you can get it to start at whatever time you want.

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[j_man]

oh,

and there are essentially 10 commands that you can use in a batch file. And although this doesn't sound like much, they're pretty powerful!

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... batch.mspx

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[3dtrialpractice]

sweetness, i thought that the time would be sent off by a internal comand inthe batch, but I had never thouhgt of using scheduled tasks!
thanks for bringing this up!-thnks for the ref link-duh-:oops: - its under windows ref online
cheers!

[j_man]

BTW you can use schedule task to start BB server (when installed as a service) when a computer is idle for a specified period of time. It will even start up under a different username and stop when the user comes back from luch if you get what I mean...

J.

[Cyberfish_Fred]

would be very nice to have a batch renderer inside maxwell

[j_man]

anyway the network rendering queue would do all this when properly implemented so hopefully soon this thread will be obselete.

J.