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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

renderStacks 1.243

renderstacksmaster March 25, 2021 Blog/News 0 Comments

renderStacks 1.243 has been released with 3dsMax 2022 support.

In the latest update to renderstacks, we were extremely excited to collaborate with the Blizzard Animation team at Blizzard Entertainment to develop the Tractor pmodifier that is now available for all renderStacks users.

Here is the list of new features. As always, all new features are driven by user request. For the detailed change log, please check the Change Log.

Tractor (Pixar’s network rendering solution) support
Now you can color pass(group) using right click menu or 1-9 short cut.
Search obj/prop name in the pmodifier list.
SHIFT support for multi selection for Layerset editor.
Single level expand/collapse.
Holding SHIFT while expand/collapse limits the action for only one level. For example, if you have not expanded all pass groups, SHIFT+E will expand only groups and keep pmodifier collapsed.
A few more functions are added to the layerset editor right click menu
Preference > Network Submission Temp .msx File
Now RoyalRender users can define their own temp .max file path for submission.

renderStacks 1.231

renderstacksmaster February 28, 2021 Blog/News 0 Comments

I’m sorry for the late announcement. renderStacks had been updated to 1.231 on 2/18/2021. It you have downloaded after 2/18,you probably already have 1.231. Also if you are have a commercial license, you already have gotten email. If you use NC version and are using older version, please download again.

RenderOutputVRay – file was not saved when “Separate Channels” option was used. It is fixed.
Some user reported right click menu is not working. This is fixed.

renderStacks 1.229

renderstacksmaster February 7, 2021 Blog/News 0 Comments

Apparently a lot of users are confused about the new RenderOutputVRay in renderStacks 1.222. To prevent the confusion. We added explicit “V-Ray saw image file” checkbox so you can turn off V-Ray raw image file output when you don’t use multi channel exr.

Also the documentation has been updated for RenderOutputVRay. Please read the documentation!

Also there is another changes. Please check Change Log for details and other changes.