3ds Max Rendering

Overview

Everything in the 3ds Max Render Setup dialog can be scripted. Settings that belong to 3ds Max itself are MAXScript globals (renderWidth, rendOutputFilename) and interfaces (batchRenderMgr, RenderElementMgr); settings that belong to the renderer are properties of renderers.current. Chaos documents only a handful of V-Ray and Corona property names and the full list depends on the installed version, so the dependable workflow is: assign the renderer, list its properties with showProperties, then set them. This skill covers that workflow, render elements, denoising, light mix, batch rendering, 3dsmaxcmd, V-Ray Standalone and network rendering.

Instructions

1. Assign the renderer and inspect it

for c in RendererClass.classes do print c     -- every installed renderer class
renderers.current = VRay()                    -- fresh V-Ray with default settings; VRayRT() is V-Ray GPU
vr = renderers.current
vrayVersion()                                 -- #(version, build)
showProperties vr                             -- every scriptable setting with its type
showProperties vr "*noise*"                   -- filter by name pattern