[stir]

Hi
i was wondering if there is possible to export mxs out of 3ds max with command line?

Right now we have a big project going and i need to export 2000 frames of animation to mxs.
The scenes are heavy so it takes 2-3 minuts pr frame and each mxs is around 2gig in size. will take 4-5 days on one computer to export em all....and god forbid, think if there is a problem and we need to re-export.

The problem is that we only have 2 workstation licenses but a bunch of node licenses. The plan was to open the max scene on multiple computers and export, but that doesn't work when we only have 2 working licenses.


So back to the question, is it possible to do this by command line so we only use the node license and not the workstation one?

like:

computer 1

open "filepath""scene".max
export MXS to "filepath""scene".mxs
range 0-100
sample 16


computer 2

open "filepath""scene".max
export MXS to "filepath""scene".mxs
range 101-200
sample 16


and so on.


-Mats

[raduc]

Hi stir,

Yes this can be done via maxscript, the plugin exposes the maxwellExportMXS function for this purpose. Here's a list of arguments for the function:

• camera (Node) - the node of the camera to be exported as active
• output (string) - the path and name of the exproted mxs
• selectedObjects (bool) - export selected objects only
• animation (bool) - export entire animation
• appendFrameNrToImg (bool) - append frame number to output image
• packngo (bool) - also do packngo

The absolute minimum that has to be passed to the maxwellExportMXS function is the camera and output parameters

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-- basic example that exports every element in the selected frame in the current scene
maxwellExportMXS camera:$'Camera001' output:"C:\example_path\example.mxs"
-- example that uses all parameters to export the entire animation range of the selected object to mxs and also calls pack'n'go
maxwellExportMXS camera:$'Camera001' output:"C:\example_path\example.mxs" selectedObjects:true animation:true appendFrameNrToImg:true packngo:true

You will then have to put the export script in a .ms file and pass that to 3dsmaxcmd as the starting script:

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3dsmaxcmd.exe -script "C:\example_path\export.ms" example.max

[stir]

Still need to wrap my head around how to do this.
But it looks really promising.

If it works like I think it does, it will be a great time saver.

Thanks so much for sharing!


-Mats