Author Topic: Prevent render window stealing focus?  (Read 2542 times)

2017-12-12, 10:17:01

Monkeybrother

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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?

2017-12-12, 10:24:36
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Christa Noel

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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.

2017-12-12, 10:38:59
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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
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2017-12-12, 10:56:50
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Thanks, found it. I had to minimize max to prevent it from popping up anyway, but now it's quiet.

2017-12-12, 11:21:10
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Christa Noel

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

2017-12-12, 11:44:40
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I spoke too soon. It seems the rendered images doesn't get saved when turning off the VFB...

2017-12-12, 15:12:35
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Christa Noel

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