how to do this?

[chow choppe]

Hi

 

is there any way to do this

what i want is that i put my system for rendering stills during nyt time

so that it gets rendered and saved when i get up in the morning

but what happens is if the render takes 2 hrs to complete the PC remains on for till the time i reach my PC in the morning

 

SI there any way which i can tell my system to close the max file and save after the rendering finishes and then shut down the PC

 

M using max 2008 and Vray

 

Please lemme know

thanks

[Thablanch]

Backburner on your own station, so after the job is finished rendering, max will close. As well, it will allow you to shoot multiples images that are going to be ready the next morning.

[chow choppe]

okay

 

for multiple images is it possible suppose teh scene has 3 cameras and for those 3 i have moved the light source, can backburner render those 3 cameras and move the light soures also for each camera

 

Thanks

[andstef]

you can use scene states to move the lights

[BrianKitts]

you can also use the batch render utility to queue up all your renders for each scene including the scene states, this allows you to run all your renders locally without using backburner.

 

Or you can hit the net render button and send the whole batch render queue off to backburner.

 

This is a great way for managing multiple cameras and scene states, when it's the end of the day and you want to send all your cameras off to net render rather then sending each shot and setting the scene state to render you just hit one button and leave, without worrying that you have your scene states properly matched to each camera.

[Tommy Burns]

I don't know about turning the PC off when rendering finishes but what I do for cameras and lights is animate them. Then I render choosing what frames to render. This enables me to switch between views using the slider and I know that the lights and cameras will change with the scene. I have never used scene states because this way I don't think I need it?

I have never really heard of others doing this. Do you guys think it is a good method?

[chow choppe]

thanks for the suggestions keep them coming

trying all of them

[Sketchrender]

If you do , what Tommy suggested, but use the render animation set, and instead of 0-100 in the animation box,choose the frame number you want , and place a coma between them, and then save output which is another dialogue box.

 

Or use batch render set up your cameras, and let it off, we use it all the time for rendering at night works a treat.

 

phil

[chow choppe]

thanks to everyone

where can i read and learn more about vray batch render?

[BrianKitts]

thanks to everyone

where can i read and learn more about vray batch render?

 

its not a vray thing, its a max thing in the file menu under "rendering"

 

do a search in the max help for "batch render" it will tell you all you need.