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renderStacks 2.91

renderstacksmaster July 31, 2023 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.91 has been released.

New – PhoenixSim pmodifier with comprehensive Deadline support.
New – New – rsPrvRender Environment Map override. It is On override to temporarily turn on Environment Map while previewing.
New – <SceneName_no_ver2> token which removes 2 characters in front of digits.
Improved – Skip Existing Images support for RenderCommon pmodifier.
Fixed – ObjSet editor resize issue
Fixed – This Dotnet runtime error should have been fixed.

renderStacks 2.81

renderstacksmaster June 3, 2023 Blog/News 0 Comments

A hot fix for rsPreview UI crash.

2.81 – 6/3/2023

Improved – Frame Range modifier – Get Active Frame button to set Range from the active animation range
Fixed – rsPreview was crashing. when the UI is being opened.

renderStacks 2.77

renderstacksmaster May 25, 2023 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.77 has been released.

!!! If you are using a non-commercial version. 2.77 probably have been expired. Please download 2.78 again.

2.77 – 5/25/2023

New – Controller support for ObjParams/ManyObjectParams
New – All On, All off support for atmospherics/RenderElement/RenderEffects
Improved – When Visibility doesn’t have any set assigned. It would hide all objects since nothing has been selected to be visible. It could be annoying when you made a new Visibility pmod. Now, if no selection method is assigned(for example, you set to a layer set but have not chosen any layer set), Visibility pmod wouldn’t do anything.
Improved – Overscan is disabled for xref camera. It would not crash.
Fixed – RenderEffects was broken.
Fixed – disabled base ManyObjectParams was still actived.
Fixed – ObjSet editor was busted. Fixed everything.

renderStacks 2.72

renderstacksmaster February 15, 2023 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.72 has been released.

2.72 – 2/15/2023

Improved — Update Render Setup dialog only when Common/RenderElement is active. If you usually open renderer tabs, you probably wouldn’t need to close Render Setup dialog all the time.
Fixed – static Overscan issues
Fixed – Preview render was failing when render output was not set properly
Fixed – Remove unnecessary output path error
Fixed – Using rsUserPreSubmitFn would have crashed the submission

renderStacks 2.65

renderstacksmaster January 15, 2023 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.65 has been released.

!!! updated with 2.66 with a small hot fix. Please re-download 2.66

New – MtlMapParams modifier – now you can control any material/map parameter per pass.
New – Generate Batch – You can generate batch file for local rendering instead of using the current session. It will launch 3dsmaxbatch and render the selected passes. Since it is using 3dsmaxbatch, it only supports 2018.4+.

- Improved – Prop/Obj Selection dialog is now resizable and shows the name also in the tooltip. This is the dialog that you use to add properties or objects for MtlMapParams, ObjParams, RendererParams.

Fixed – UI was not updating when a new pmodifier was added
Fixed – rsPrv reset will properly load saved defaults

renderStacks 2.59

renderstacksmaster November 19, 2022 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.59 has been released.

New – ChaosPlayer support. I tried MRVIewer and DJV, RV. ChaosPlayer is still my favorite.
Improved – Removed backup render preset from rsPrvRender. Ya, that polluting render presets are gone.
Fixed – output preview button display. The black button at bottom center.
Fixed -Output folder should be generated only when local rendering or submiiting to network render. Changing pass wouldn’t;t generate the output folder.
Fixed – Bad plugin error – If you run rsPrv, most pmodifier showed “Bad plugin….” msg and had to restart renderStacks. That is fixed.

renderStacks 2.57

renderstacksmaster October 22, 2022 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.57 has been released.

!!! renderStacks supports only 3dsMax 2017.1+ from now on !!!
New – RenderEffects pmodifier
New – Disabling the ::base pmodifier support.
Sometimes you want to disable all pmodifiers of a type for troubleshooting and such. Now you can disable pmodifiers in ::base. Then, all the same type pmodifiers in all passes will be disabled.
New – Overscan warning for Alembic camera. If a pass uses an alembic camera, the warning will pop up when an alembic camera is used for the pass.
New – hotkeys
- Move to top/bottom – Home/End
  move selected nodes to top/bottom at the same level
- Arrow – expand/collapse/move up and down
  left – collapse (previously it was E)
  right – expand (previously it was W)
  up – move up
  down – move down
New – Treeview active status
When treeview is not in focus, the selected node color turns dark gray. This should prevent accidentally pressing the hotkey for enderStacks.

renderStacks 2.52

renderstacksmaster September 26, 2022 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.52 has been released.

If you have been using the non-commercial version, you will have to upgrade to this version. I forget to update the timer, and all previous versions would be expired today.

* Non-commercial version has a time limit and will expire at some point. You will have to download a newer You can use any version if you have a license.

Improved – Renamer – Added support for passgroup
Fixed – RendererParams crash for VRayGPU
Fixed – Group/ungroup was not performed properly When there were instanced passes
Fixed – Ramaner – Numbering will only happen when you check base/numbering

renderStacks 2.49

renderstacksmaster August 21, 2022 Blog/News 0 Comments

A small update, if you were using 2.45, please update.

New – Global Preference Override allow you to control some of Preferences settings globally using global variable or environment variable.
Improved – Maxscript documentation has been updated.
Fixed – Set Editor was not opening.
Fixed – Sometimes pmodifier parameter UI showed the wrong contents.

renderStacks 2.45

renderstacksmaster July 18, 2022 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.45 has been released

It has been a while we had an update. There was some core work going on. Now we have a way of making “pmodifier plugin”. The documentation will be released in the future. Also now renderStacks can do more than render. It can “Execute” tasks.

As the first implementation of execute and plugin, we made Save pmodifier which allows you to save each pass status as a max file.

Because of this, now you have a new “Execute” button. All the render-related buttons are consolidated as the “Render” button. If you click “Execute” button, a menu will popup so you can select which type of action pmodifiers to execute.

New – Custom Pmodifier Plugin support
Now you can make own custom pmodifier plugin. Save pmodifier is implemented with the new system. The documentation will be released in the future.
New – Save pmodifier and Execute
Improved – More than 3 levels of nested property support
Fixed – Loading a saved renderStacks data from file will not wipe out the existing selection set
Fixed – Map/Material right-click menu fix when the Map/material button is empty
Fixed – Focal Length over scan fix