Maxwell Render | Batch Scene Export?

[cmast316]

Using Maxwell 4 and trying to figure out if I can batch export scenes. I have around 30 scenes in one file and it takes around 55 minutes to do this manually. Mostly sitting watching it export each time. Can't find this in their documentation anywhere.

I'm going to switch to Vray eventually, I just have been using Maxwell for 9 years and have a lot invested into it. I know it's super easy to do this in Vray.

If anyone knows, I would appreciate it. Thank you!

[JD Hill]

If you write the model to mxs, then reference that mxs in another skp with all the various scenes, you can use this one-liner to quickly write out an mxs for each scene:

Sketchup.active_model.pages.each { |p| Sketchup.active_model.pages.selected_page = p; puts "Exporting #{p.name}"; MX::Util.set_output_property('output.scene_name', p.name, true); MX::Export.export('mxs') }

You will want to disable scene transitions and set delay to 0 in window > model info > animation, since it appears ruby does not wait for the transition to complete between scenes. Then, you can use the network render button to set up a batch job for rendering all the mxs files.

Other ways are possible as well, since each scene is written as a camera into the mxs -- e.g. you can write one mxs, and use a python script to open it and render out each camera. But the way given above is probably easiest.