Command line Rendering Takes

emlcpfx

I can get the command line renderer to render a specific Take from a file by using the -take flag.

How can I get that one subprocess to render all Takes from a given file? I don't want to have to load, unload, load, unload the commandline renderer for every take.

Something like
... -take Take1, Take2, Take3

ferdinand

Hello @emlcpfx,

Welcome to the Plugin Café forum and the Cinema 4D development community, it is great to have you with us!

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About your First Question

Since your question is not related to any of the Cinema 4D APIs, it is unfortunately out of scope of support for Plugin Café. I therefore have moved your question to our off-topic forum. The SDK group of Maxon which runs this forum cannot provide an answer in this case, although you might receive a community answer.

To receive an answer from Maxon, you should reach out to our support team via a Support Request. When you want to solve the problem programmatically, you are welcome to open a new topic here. This would then however not happen via the commandline app but either the c4dpy or Cinema 4D app. Note that there is no direct solution in our APIs either, likely because Cinema 4D itself does not offer that feature out of the the box. But it should be solvable with ~300 lines of code script. One approach could be to save (temporary) variants of a file for each take in it and launch them then with the render queue as sperate renders.

Please also note that we cannot write your script(s) for you, but we are more than happy to help you along the way. So

Cheers,
Ferdinand