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Maxwell Render 2.5 User Manual

Chapter 17. Appendix IV. Scripting References | 157

17.03.05 Progressive render for Animations

// This script renders all the MXS les located in the input folder but instead of rendering

them sequentially until each one reaches the nal SL, it renders them incrementally. First

it renders all the frames up to SL 4, producing a low SL version of the whole animation

that you can use for starting post-production tasks, and then continues rening the whole

animation to SL 6, 8, 10,... in steps of 2 Sampling Levels, until the indicated nal SL.

// It is useful for quickly previewing animations, and for overlapping the rendering process

with the postproduction process, saving a huge amount of time in animation projects.

var inputFolder = “C:\input”;

var outputFolder = “C:\output”;

var mxsCount = FileManager.getNumberOfFilesInFolder( inputFolder, “*.mxs” );

var mxsList = FileManager.getFilesInFolder( inputFolder, “*.mxs” );

RenderEvents[“renderFinished()”].connect(renderHasFinished);

var initialSL = 4;

var finalSL = 12;

var slStep = 2;

var currentSL = initialSL;

var i = 0;

var isRendering = 0;

while( currentSL <= finalSL )

{

for( i = 0; i < mxsCount; i++ )

{

renderScene();

while( 1 )

{

if( isRendering == 0 )

{