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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] I need help! => Topic started by: Monkeybrother on 2017-12-12, 10:17:01

Title: Prevent render window stealing focus?
Post by: Monkeybrother on 2017-12-12, 10:17:01

I'm batch rendering a lot of light maps in max/corona, for use in Unity. Each time a new render starts, the render window pops on top of everything, disrupting what I'm doing and basically making it impossible to do any work while rendering (for 2-3 hours). Is there a way to prevent this? I don't know if it's a windows, 3ds max or corona problem, but maybe someone here knows a solution regardless?

Title: Re: Prevent render window stealing focus?
Post by: Christa Noel on 2017-12-12, 10:24:36

imho there is no way to do that even with maxscript, because I do batchrender almost everyday, so +1 for this
a feature like 'hide vfb when rendering' would be great.

Title: Re: Prevent render window stealing focus?
Post by: Ondra on 2017-12-12, 10:38:59

Quote from: Christa Noel on 2017-12-12, 10:24:36

imho there is no way to do that even with maxscript, because I do batchrender almost everyday, so +1 for this
a feature like 'hide vfb when rendering' would be great.

It is there, in system wide settings

Title: Re: Prevent render window stealing focus?
Post by: Monkeybrother on 2017-12-12, 10:56:50

Thanks, found it. I had to minimize max to prevent it from popping up anyway, but now it's quiet.

Title: Re: Prevent render window stealing focus?
Post by: Christa Noel on 2017-12-12, 11:21:10

"system settings > vfb settings > type: none" haha great it is there since long time, thanks! :)

Title: Re: Prevent render window stealing focus?
Post by: Monkeybrother on 2017-12-12, 11:44:40

I spoke too soon. It seems the rendered images doesn't get saved when turning off the VFB...

Title: Re: Prevent render window stealing focus?
Post by: Christa Noel on 2017-12-12, 15:12:35

I'm not with 3ds max now but juat to make sure, Have you turned on the renderoutput in rendersetup>common ?