Backburner, script, name issue. Help please.

Submitted by Dariusz on Thu, 2015-07-23 15:46

Heya I'm trying to send my job to BB and get a right name output out of it. This is my basic test command :
m =NetRender.GetManager()
m.connect #automatic "255.255.255.0"
job = m.newjob ()
job.useAllServers = true
job.name = "aaaa" job.fromFrame = 0
job.toFrame = 0
job.submit()

And I forgot what is the damn command code again to wrap text

Anyway the name output I get is something like "Name_test0000.ext" where as I want "Name_test.ext"

Can any1 please help me out? I'm running out of options here as to how to tweak up the code so it gives me the correct result.

General Scripting

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Submitted by Dariusz on Fri, 2015-07-24 14:49.

Yeah even when I try

Yeah

even when I try :

job.frames = ("0")

Give me 0000. I just dont know what is the command to submit single frame. Or maybe should I just leave it empty O_O

Submitted by pixamoon on Sat, 2015-07-25 05:17.

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

or here:
http://www.scriptspot.com/forums/3ds-max/general-scripting/backburner-in...

Submitted by pixamoon on Sat, 2015-07-25 08:05.

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oki,
I checked this posted by Gravey:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=98&s=9f6abfed0537ff7aa7a752...

It works perfectly here with 2014 and output files are without 0000

Submitted by Dariusz on Mon, 2015-07-27 09:28.

Hey Yes I did see his post.

Hey

Yes I did see his post. Sadly its a little bit hard to go over his script + its hist script. Isn't there a simple command am I just missing?

Submitted by Dariusz on Fri, 2015-07-24 11:22.

HeyYeah I know how tos cript

Hey

Yeah I know how to script rename script. The problem is that. I send the job to backburner via script. Which creates 20 000 jobs. They are then being rendered and I end up with up to 60 000 render images.

Cant have another script running really. I would need BB to save the file properly with no 0000 at the end.

When I submit job manually from max to network it will save job as "Name_test.ext" so there must be a way to script submit job and not have the extra 0000....

Submitted by pixamoon on Fri, 2015-07-24 12:26.

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do you want to submit animation or single frames ?

if single frames (and u don't need 0000 on the end) problem can be in:

job.fromFrame = 0
job.toFrame = 0

It looks like you submitting it as animation job frame 0 to 0. I think that's why BB adds 0000 on end of rendered images.

Submitted by pixamoon on Fri, 2015-07-24 05:04.

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hey,

If you want to remove 4 last digits from name try this:

oldName = "Name_test0000.ext"
f = getfilenamefile oldName
t = getfilenametype oldName
newName = (substring f 1 (f.count - 4)) + t

or to get render output filename :

rendOutputFilename

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