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Backburner, script, name issue. Help please.

By Dariusz · 2015-07-23

Description

Heya I'm trying to send my job to BB and get a right name output out of it. This is my basic test command :
m =NetRender.GetManager()
m.connect #automatic "255.255.255.0"
job = m.newjob ()
job.useAllServers = true
job.name = "aaaa" job.fromFrame = 0
job.toFrame = 0
job.submit()

And I forgot what is the damn command code again to wrap text

Anyway the name output I get is something like "Name_test0000.ext" where as I want "Name_test.ext"

Can any1 please help me out? I'm running out of options here as to how to tweak up the code so it gives me the correct result.

Comments (7)

Dariusz · 2015-07-24

Yeah

even when I try :

job.frames = ("0")

Give me 0000. I just dont know what is the command to submit single frame. Or maybe should I just leave it empty O_O

Dariusz · 2015-07-27

Hey

Yes I did see his post. Sadly its a little bit hard to go over his script + its hist script. Isn't there a simple command am I just missing?

HeyYeah I know how tos cript

Dariusz · 2015-07-24

Hey

Yeah I know how to script rename script. The problem is that. I send the job to backburner via script. Which creates 20 000 jobs. They are then being rendered and I end up with up to 60 000 render images.

Cant have another script running really. I would need BB to save the file properly with no 0000 at the end.

When I submit job manually from max to network it will save job as "Name_test.ext" so there must be a way to script submit job and not have the extra 0000....

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pixamoon · 2015-07-24

do you want to submit animation or single frames ?

if single frames (and u don't need 0000 on the end) problem can be in:

job.fromFrame = 0
job.toFrame = 0

It looks like you submitting it as animation job frame 0 to 0. I think that's why BB adds 0000 on end of rendered images.

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pixamoon · 2015-07-24

hey,

If you want to remove 4 last digits from name try this: 


oldName = "Name_test0000.ext"
f = getfilenamefile oldName
t = getfilenametype oldName
newName = (substring f 1 (f.count - 4)) + t

or to get render output filename : 


rendOutputFilename