This Interface provides access to the Batch Render Manager feature.

Available in 3ds Max 8 and higher.

Interface: batchRenderMgr 

Properties:

batchRenderMgr.numViews : integer : Read   

Returns the number of views defined in the Batch Render manager.

batchRenderMgr.displayRenderedViews : boolean : Read|Write 

Corresponds to the Display Rendered Views checkbox in the Batch Render UI. When set to true, the rendered views will be displayed.

batchRenderMgr.netRender : boolean : Read|Write 

Corresponds to the Net Render checkbox in the Batch Render UI. When set to true, the rendering will be sent to the network.

Methods:

<Interface>batchRenderMgr.GetView <index>index 

Returns a batchRenderViewOps MixinInterface to the indexed view.

<index>batchRenderMgr.FindView <string>name 

Returns the index of the named view.

<Interface>batchRenderMgr.CreateView <node>camera 

Creates a new view from the specified camera and returns a batchRenderViewOps MixinInterface to the new view.

<boolean>batchRenderMgr.DeleteView <index>index 

Deletes the indexed view. Returns true on success, false otherwise.

<Interface>batchRenderMgr.DuplicateView <index>index 

Duplicates the indexed view and returns a batchRenderViewOps MixinInterface to the new view.

<void>batchRenderMgr.Render() 

Starts the batch rendering.

MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps

This MixinInterface is returned by the GetView(), CreateView() and DuplicateView() methods of the batchRenderMgr Interface in 3ds Max 8 and higher and provides the following properties:

Interface: batchRenderViewOps 

Properties:

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.enabled : boolean : Read|Write 

Get/set the enabled state of the view.

This property was exposed incorrectly in previous versions of 3ds Max and has been fixed in 3ds Max 2009.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.overridePreset : boolean : Read|Write 

Get/set whether to override the Render Preset with the view's .

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.startFrame : time : Read|Write 

Get/set the start frame to be used when rendering this view.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.endFrame: time : Read|Write 

Get/set the end frame to be used when rendering this view.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.width : integer : Read|Write 

Get/set the render width to be used when rendering this view.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.height : integer : Read|Write 

Get/set the render height to be used when rendering this view.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.pixelAspect : float : Read|Write 

Get/set the pixel aspect to be used when rendering this view.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.name : string : Read|Write 

Get/set the name of the view.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.outputFilename :filename: Read|Write 

Get/set the output file name to be used when rendering this view.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.camera : node : Read|Write 

Get/set the Camera to be used when rendering this view with Override Preset turned on.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.sceneStateName : string : Read|Write 

Get/set the name of the Scene State to be used when rendering this view.

This property was exposed incorrectly in previous versions of 3ds Max and has been fixed in 3ds Max 2009.

<MixinInterface:batchRenderViewOps>.presetFile : filename : Read|Write 

Get/set the Render Preset file to be used when rendering this view.