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I got a backdrop specified in the camera to work, so I’m going with that for now. But I’ll look at Rob’s examples again—I did read through them a couple of weeks ago, but I understand more about scripting now than I did then….

Curious did you ever finish this little project?

Tugpsx - 27 January 2013 11:51 PM

Curious did you ever finish this little project?

Still working on it. The render works, but there are still too many manual steps to set it up. If you’d like to take a look, pm me.

When I use the “Save render settings” utility with my Scripted 3Delight settings, it doesn’t capture the render engine information. The file that is created has this info:

I think I need to change “renderType” to something other than “Software,” but what? Then I’ll also need to select the appropriate script, so I’ll need to figure out what that option is called. There’s no context help for either of these options. Does anyone know how to refer to them in a render preset script?

I found an old script someone shared with me two years ago, and was able to get the setting renderType to scripted renderer to work. However, I’m still having trouble setting the render script. The log doesn’t show any errors, but if I try to include the variable that should have the path to the script in a messagebox, there’s nothing there.

This sets the path to my render script:

The list of available scripts works after this is run, but I still can’t figure out how to set it….

Does anyone know how I can determine the name of a widget from strings files or anything like that? I need to know how to refer to the script selector widget.

What do you mean by widget?

In scripting terms, I mean property. I have a variable set to the path to the script I want to use, but I don’t know the name of the property to set to that variable.

A DzProperty derivative has a getLabel() function and a name member - both strings.

Ok, I’ll see if I can iterate through the children of the parent property and find it that way—thanks for the reminder.

DzProperties don’t have children, so I’m wondering if we are talking about different things.

Probably not. I have a terrible time knowing what to call things in this scripting language.

I have set these variables:

and then I want to use them here:

but it doesn’t work—the value of the script referenced in the Render Settings panel doesn’t change. I suspect the name of the thingy I’m trying to set has changed. ( Where “thingy” here refers to “oRENDERER.setRenderScript()”.)

No error? I’m not sure what you need, but you can use Rob’s trick to look for the functions in DzRenderer in DS4:

for ( var o in oRENDERER ) {
print ( o );
}

zigraphix - 05 March 2013 08:28 PM

Probably not. I have a terrible time knowing what to call things in this scripting language.

I have set these variables:

var oRENDER_MANAGER = App.getRenderMgr();
var oRENDERER = oRENDER_MANAGER.findRenderer("DzScriptedRenderer");
var sRENDER_SCRIPT = "support/DAZ/ScriptedRenderer/Outline Compositor/OutlineCompositorRenderScript.dsa"; 

and then I want to use them here:

oRENDERER.setRenderScript( sRENDER_SCRIPT ); 

but it doesn’t work—the value of the script referenced in the Render Settings panel doesn’t change. I suspect the name of the thingy I’m trying to set has changed. ( Where “thingy” here refers to “oRENDERER.setRenderScript()”.)

Despite the UI of the render options not changing, it seems “internally” it is working. Via the following script I can invoke the “Point-based occlusion” render without having it selected beforehand:

Well, I feel silly, I didn’t even try to see if it would work. I’ll try that when I’m back at my development system tonight.

Thanks!