Secondly, I’ve tried to alter your animation code, aiming at getting vectorial pdf instead of bitmaps. So I directed myself to the end of the code where the rendering is happening (the one you reffer back to Mcneel’s website section on BatchRendering)

Here is the section as you wrote it :

app.RunScript(“_-Render”, 0);

app.RunScript(“_-SaveRenderWindowAs \n\”" + savedLocation + “\”\n”, 0);

app.RunScript(“_-CloseRenderWindow”, 0);

Now to get my series of PDFs instead of bitmaps I thought I would just make it print through the PDF printer instead of render and just slap the savedlocation string at the end to get the same kind of serie.

that’s the code modified:

app.RunScript(“_-Print _go \n\”" + savedLocation + “\”\n”, 0);

— MY PROBLEM : —
My macro alone _-Print _go makes the dialogue box “Save PDF as” come out, but when I add your naming part, it doesn’t work.
My explanation would be that yours work because the dialogue box opened by “_-SaveRenderWindowAs” is rhino generated whereas the one opened by “_-Print _go” is based on AdobePDF printer.

Hope that it makes some kind of sense and hopefully on of you guys can help me out.

David

Grazie Mille

GB

Dear Giulio,

I have been trying to use your script for batch animation rendering. However, it seems like even if I assign multiple materials to separate lists of geometries, all end up rendered with the same material. Was your script written for single material rendering, or am I doing something wrong? I would really appreciate your help!

Thank you so much

Fan

I need some help, however elementary, with your animation script. I have managed to get it running but I don’t quite get how it works, specifically the order of events. Once it’s gone through an animation it’s unclear how to reset and start over. I’ve tried “enable”-ing the timer and stopping and starting the timer (the check mark and the red circle-slash) but I still am not getting it. Is there an explanation somewhere?

Hope to be in touch.
Kindly,
_WF