renderAnimation by Giulio Piacentino updated

Hey.

I was always using the script from Giulio's website to render animation. As it's obsolete for some time and it doesn't seem to work with newest versions of GH, I decided to rewrite it.

It's basically the same as the original. I just added the possibility to bake to a specific layer so that v-ray materials can be used.

Quite useful with camera control plugin.

The example file attached.

Best,

Tags: C#, animation, render

Attachments:

animation.gh, 8 KB

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on January 17, 2012 at 9:57am

Thanks Jacek.

Just to let you know as soon as you open the file its starts rendering!

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Permalink Reply by Jacek Markusiewicz on January 17, 2012 at 9:59am

oops. sorry

but that means it works! :)

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Permalink Reply by Christian D on September 17, 2012 at 12:48pm

It does! Thanks a lot, Jacek, its great!

One may run into problems when starting it (or re-starting it again manually), but disabling the main c# component and reactivating it does the trick.

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Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on January 17, 2012 at 10:20am

Thanks Jacek.

I wasn't aware that it stopped working. Thanks for fixing it (I did it a couple times in these years) and porting it to RhinoCommon. I will link to this thread from that post.

Cheers,

- Giulio
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giulio@mcneel.com

Postscript: it would be awesome if one could also specify a material name and if that material was looked up in the document. I know some people relied upon that.

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Lowe on January 26, 2012 at 3:45pm

Was your postscript ever addressed? I've been using Flamingo materials by name.

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Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on January 27, 2012 at 6:39am

Hi Nathan,

here is an addition to Jacek's port to have again a similar type of material lookup.
I hope it helps,

- Giulio
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giulio@mcneel.com

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animation-material-names.gh, 10 KB

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Permalink Reply by Nathan Lowe on January 27, 2012 at 12:39pm

Thanks so much! My few attempts at altering the component had failed. This is very helpful. I'm presenting a recently developed Urban master planning tool at the University of Washington on Monday that makes use of this definition. I'll post some screenshots... next week... and will appropriately credit your generous help. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Nicholas Pajerski on January 17, 2012 at 4:22pm

Hey Jacek thanks for the post. I seem to be able to get everything to work besides the final rendering. It is returning an error stating "Impossible to re-delete one object" and will not render.

I am using V-Ray + Rhino 4 + GH Build. 0.8.0065

Thanks, Nick

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Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on March 9, 2012 at 11:29am

Ive just tried using this component with Maxwell 2.6. It worked just fine, but maxwell defaults to automatically overwriting the existing MXI and image file instead of automatically renaming each image/mxi incrementally (which is obviously a problem).

Anyone know a way around this? Or a way to enable incremental auto naming?

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Permalink Reply by Brian Harms on March 9, 2012 at 12:35pm

Oh also neither the MXI or image file was saved to the folder I specified in the component (myuser name/desktop/renderTest). I was thinking I could just have grasshopper alter the folder name it saves to (to create a new folder for each render) but that would be pretty tedious once they are all done (to get each image out of it's folder into a common one).

Regardless, the files didn't save to this new folder. I assume this is a maxwell thing but I'm not sure.

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Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on March 10, 2012 at 5:54am

Look into the output section of Maxwell's scene manager.

You can specify the output folder. And there are options for auto file renaming... never used them though, so i don't know if they work the way we'd expect.