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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:06 pm
by Maximus3D
Yup yup i agree, and i vote for this :)

/ Max

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 2:26 pm
by 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...



Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:01 pm
by -Adrian
Yes i agree, i'd like that feature aswell (in the gui).

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:52 am
by Tim Ellis
Ditto, would be extremely useful.


Thanks,

Tim.

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:12 am
by 3dtrialpractice
j_man wrote:in the meantime you could run maxwell from the command line using a batch file that is scheculed to run at a certain time...


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

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 10:20 am
by breberka
absolutelly agree, but let them finish render first :)

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:03 pm
by j_man
3dtrialpractice wrote: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.


Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 12:05 pm
by 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


Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:41 pm
by 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!

Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 5:46 pm
by 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.

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:48 am
by Cyberfish_Fred
would be very nice to have a batch renderer inside maxwell

Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:31 pm
by j_man
anyway the network rendering queue would do all this when properly implemented so hopefully soon this thread will be obselete.

J.