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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

renderStacks 2.36

renderstacksmaster March 22, 2022 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.36 has been released. It was 2.35 and had a small bug. 2.36 is the hot fix version.

Improved – Image aspect ratio spinner in Resolution modifier
Improved – Added more Arnold option for rsPrv
Improved – Added Red as a new pass color. Only accessible via right click mnu
Improved – Deadline “onComplete” property support
Improved – Treeview node selection will be remembered when the dialog close/open within in the current session.
Improved – If you select passgroup, all children passes of the passgroup will be used for preview/local render/submission,
Improved – Cleanup Deadline submission result message. If submission fails, it will print out the whole message from Deadline.
Fixed – Pass set was not working.
Fixed – Full Preview now will show overscan properly.

renderStacks 2.29

renderstacksmaster January 6, 2022 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.29 has been released.

Improved – Now when you resize renderStacks, it will not restart itself. This also means you can resize while it is docked.
Improved – Various options that is related to renderStacks UI are moved under Preference menu for a better access and visibility.
https://renderstacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Pasted-9.png
Improved – Holding ESC allows you to cancel the started local render or submission.
Improved – XrefSceneVisible will also control “Disabled” while rendering. 3dsMax default behavior is that Visible is only for viewport. With this change, you will get the render that matches to your viewport. If you have turn on IPR, renderStacks will stop/restart when it switches passes.
Improved – rsRenamer now allows to pad numbers on existing object name. The option for number padding position also has been added.
Improved– renderStacks Mini Preview button now has the same right click menu as full size version.
Fixed – Selecting pass group was not working.

renderStacks 2.15

renderstacksmaster December 5, 2021 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.15 has been released.

New – Maxscript pmodifier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UOQpuAKpmA
New – Newly revamped Set Editor

Resizable
Added Selection Set
Member view
Display usage count
Rightclick menu
Clear Unused
Add to/Remove from scene – Layerset, Selection Set
New – Select the Selected Items in the Scene (see reply)
Improved – When you use Skip Frame option. The Frames string could become too long which will trigger max warning. Now the Frames string will be set to empty if the generated string has more than 32k characters.

Maxscript documentation is added

renderstacksmaster November 7, 2021 Blog/News 0 Comments

I added a small Maxscript documentation about scripting renderStacks.

Maxscript

renderStacks 2.08

renderstacksmaster October 31, 2021 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 2.08 has been released.

New – VRayFramebufferLayerTree pmodifier
Improved – FrameRange – Move to first frame
Improved – Deadline – USER-DEFINED NETWORKPATH support
Improved – Deadline – Auto turn off script job
Improved – Renderer/VRayFramebufferLayerTree support for load/save
Improved – ObjSet editor will open as floating dialog
Improved – Save – save to previous
Improved – Save – pass searchbox
Improved – Save all pass including passgroups
Improved – Only object that has parent will show up in AlignLink available object list
Improved – Changed the way to pick parent for AlignLink
Fixed – Prevent opening rePrv when renderer changes
Fixed – Renderer pmod will be properly duplicated/deinstanced
Fixed – cleaned up Material/Map Cleanup utility.
Fixed – Put Material/Maps in MaterialEditor for some pmodifiers were broken
Fixed – LayerSet apply when the set name was empty when the editor is opened.
Fixed – rename pmodifier with hotkey and right click
Fixed – accumulative modifier ::base object check

renderStacks 2 is here!

renderstacksmaster September 9, 2021 Blog/News 0 Comments

It has been a while since the last update of renderStacks. Now renderStacks is supporting a nested pass setup with the pmodifier on passgroup and instanced passes. It took a lot longer than we expected. But, I hope this would add another dimension to your workflow!

Here is a short video about the pmodifier on passgroup and instanced passes.

A new tutorial and documentation

http://renderstacks.com/docs/renderstacks/tutorials/6-passgroup-pmodifier/
http://renderstacks.com/docs/renderstacks/passgroup/
https://renderstacks.com/docs/renderstacks/main-ui/working-with-treeview/#working-with-passes

Also don’t forget the changelog

https://renderstacks.com/docs/renderstacks/changelog/

Happy renderStacking!

renderStacks 1.246

renderstacksmaster May 9, 2021 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 1.246 has been released.

It is a small update. But, all new features are from user request.

Automatic layer localization for Scene Xref. Please read this page for details.
Delete Passgroup Tree
Now you can delete passgroup(s) with all their passes.

SHIFT+Del or SHIFT+Remove Node button or right click menu.
Visibility Pmodifier Selection Set Rightclick menu. Click here for details.
If a Visibility pmodifier is using SS(Selection as selection method) and a selection set is assigned, you will have a right click menu like the following image.
1.239 caused renderStacks to crash while changing pmodifier name