ArqRenderZ - Camera Manager Beta Testing & Suggestions

Hello,

My name is Pablo Ferro and I am co-founder of tiny Archviz studio ArqRenderZ. As a part of our daily struggle we love to develop scripts, methods and apps that make our job easier.

Camera Manager is my take on camera managment scripting which is a very popular and yet underestimated topic. At this stage the script is as buggy and unstable as a No Man´s Sky early release but I am confident when I say that this piece of code has already saved us hours and hours of work. I believe this script has the potential of managing our entire rendering output workflow and more.

I may be alone, but in my 12 years of experience with 3dsMax I never understood the logic behind max´s scene states; I find them lacking in "visibility". That´s why I´ve always been a fan of node userprops because they are little strings that can be attributed to every object no matter what they are and stay visible.

This script hinges around the node userprop functionality and I am pretty sure 90% of the code is not optimized as I have no formal training in max or max script.

I would like you guys to take a look at the beta code, try this script and maybe give me some insight on what to add, erase or improve.

Cheers!

Ps: These are my current doubts.

-Smart layer managment.
-I dont have the faintest clue on how callbacks work.
-Network render managment.

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Hi,

Did you try Prism (or older LPM)?

It is an amazing render stage manager, very advanced and with lots of options.
It has already network render submitter and many options for objects by name or by layer (selected or name "*pattern*").

Here is a link:
http://www.scriptspot.com/3ds-max/scripts/prism

Best,
Pixamoon

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There is also great post about submitting render to backburner with maxscript. It works very well.

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=98&s=9f6abfed0537ff7aa7a752...

Please explain bit more what kind of callbacks are you looking for ?

Best,

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