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Maxwell Render 2.5 User Manual

Chapter 9. The core rendering application | 50

9.05 The Right-click Menu

Right-click in the Display Render window to get access to the Display Options menu.

It allows you to Pan and Zoom in on the rendered image, rotate it, display it in Full Size,

show/ hide the UI panels, and enable/ disable the displayed render.

9.06 The Console Tab

This panel provides information about the rendering process and scene statistics. Any

error or warning messages are also displayed in the Console tab. If your scene does not

start to render, you should rst look in this panel for information on what the problem

might be.

The verbosity levels can be controlled via the command line, using the -v: or -verbose:

ag, which values can vary from:

• -v:0 (no information displayed)

• -v:1 (errors)

• -v:2 (warnings)

• -v:3 (info)

• -v:4 (all)

9.07 The Script Tab

The core rendering application now supports scripting. Scripting makes it much easier

to automate tasks such as processing several MXI les at once, editing Multilight™ in

animations, or launching sets of scenes changing their render parameters. All the

parameters of the Maxwell Render UI are accessible through scripts.

The Maxwell Render scripting engine is based on ECMA standards (like other popular

scripting languages such as Javascript and Actionscript), and provides default compatibility

with these standards. The script editor in Maxwell Render also contains a Debugger,

including breakpoints, searches, info about the variables, and more.

F.01 Debugger screenshot

Write a script in a simple text editor, save it with the .ms extension or even with the

.js extension, and run it in Maxwell Render using the Run Script button in the Render

Toolbar. It is also possible to launch a script through the command line using the argument

-script:[script_path], or to directly write a script in the Script Editor in the Script Tab.

You can choose between several example script pre-sets for the most common tasks.

These script pre-sets are available from the main menu (Scripting menu\ Scripts).

The Script panel shows a number of icons: