Creating placeholder frames in FXTree 2005-06-21 - By todd akita
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This might work. Kind of dirty but you can try it. Don't know what it
does for alpha though but you can modify pretty easy.
-T
Eric Lampi wrote:
>I need to render whole frame ranges, even those that
>have nothing in them unti the last few frames.
>Instead of sending them through Batchserve and wasting
>a lot of time for blank frames, I would like to use
>the FXtree to basically export a black frame sequence
>for those empty ranges.
>
>Can anyone give me a clue how I might automate this
>for each pass? My alternative is to manually copy the
>frame range and image path, a bit tedious, but it
>would work.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>E
>
>Freelance 3-D Animator, F/X Artist, Particle Man
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****************************************SNIP
//get the passes, and filter out anything that is not a pass
Psel = GetValue("SelectionList");
logmessage (Psel(0));
for (i=0; i<Psel.count - 1; i++){
if (Psel(i).type == "#Pass")
{
logmessage (Psel(i) + " is a pass");
}
else
{
RemoveFromSelection (Psel(i).FullName);
logmessage (Psel(i) + " removed");
}
}
//these are all passes
Psel = GetValue("SelectionList");
for (P=0; P<Psel.count; P++){
var oTree = CreateFxTree(null);
logmessage (oTree);
StartFr = getvalue (Psel(P)+ ".RenderOptions.StartFrame");
logmessage (StartFr);
EndFr = getvalue (Psel(P)+ ".RenderOptions.EndFrame");
logmessage (EndFr);
Xres = getvalue (Psel(P)+ ".RenderOptions.CameraXRes");
logmessage (Xres);
Yres = getvalue (Psel(P)+ ".RenderOptions.CameraYRes");
logmessage (Yres);
Pratio = getvalue (Psel(P)+ ".RenderOptions.PixelRatio");
logmessage (Pratio);
ImgForm = getvalue (Psel(P)+ ".RenderOptions.ImageFormat");
logmessage (ImgForm);
Fname = getvalue (Psel(P)+ ".RenderOptions.ImageFileName");
logmessage (Fname);
mFO = AddFxOp("FxTree", "FileOutput", null);
logmessage (mFO);
mCF = AddFxOp("FxTree", "PaintClip", null);
ConnectFxOp(mCF, mFO, "1");
SetValue(mCF + ".Width", Xres, null);
SetValue(mCF + ".Height", Yres, null);
SetValue(mCF + ".SourceStart", StartFr, null);
SetValue(mCF + ".SourceEnd", EndFr, null);
//set up renderparams
SetValue(mFO + ".StartFrame", StartFr, null);
SetValue(mFO + ".EndFrame", EndFr, null);
SetValue(mFO + ".PixelRatio", Pratio, null);
SetValue(mFO + ".ImageParser", "sgi", null);
SetValue(mFO + ".FileName", Fname, null);
RenderFxOp(mFO, null);
}
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