[Maxer]

Right now you can't do that, not sure if they plan on setting up something like this.

[Maxer]

You could save out different files for each camera in your scene and using the cooperative rendering manager send each of those files to render. This would do what your asking but it's not automatic.

[stonelli]

So there is no way to send a few scenes to render to different files? Meaning so that is does not overwrite the 'DEFAULT' file in the OUTPUT folder each time...?

I would tink that since you can run it from the command prompt you should be able to make BAT files or scripts that launched the successive renders. Don't know how you would go about timing them properly...

[rivoli]

I would tink that since you can run it from the command prompt you should be able to make BAT files or scripts that launched the successive renders.

yes, only thing you have to export all the MXSs you need first(one per camera view that is), and then you can run a BAT file for rendering them.

[rivoli]

Where do I control where the output images are called and placed?

those info would be contained in the bat file, which would look something like this:

mxcl.exe -mxs:"G:\3D\test1.mxs" -t:1 -r:640x480 -nowait -o:"G:\3D\test1.jpg"
mxcl.exe -mxs:"G:\3D\test2.mxs" -t:1 -r:640x480 -nowait -o:"G:\3D\test2.jpg"
mxcl.exe -mxs:"G:\3D\test3.mxs" -t:1 -r:640x480 -nowait -o:"G:\3D\test3.jpg"

Then I guess I can shoot several renders in a row and collect them all in the morning?

all the output images are saved directly by maxwell, during the rendering they are updated every 10 minutes or so as the rendering goes on.

[rivoli]

actually that is an example of a .bat file, when running a file like that maxwell is executed outside max. it calls mxcl and then tells it what to do: where to get the scene you want to render (-mxs:C:\...\1.mxs), desired render time (-t:...), resolution, output and so on.
if you never used maxwell through mxcl, i'd suggest you to take a look at the pdf about command lines and stuff that you can find in your maxwell's installation folder (next limit\maxwell\maxwell_mxcl.pdf). lot of info in there.

[ludi]

Hi
I think you can make a very,very short animation about 4-5 frames. You place your cam in each frame in a different views.

What do you think about this idea?

[rivoli]

I like the sound of that, I am just trying like crazy to understand here how to control where my renders are saved to...

within max you can specify an output path here:

[ludi]

I always use different names, eg. test.mxs / ren1.jpg
I change the name as well the extension. Its probably just a habit of earier bugs, (in former times there was one)

but i still use different names => never chang a running config *ggg*