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xrok1 · Post by **xrok1** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 4:31 pm

would it be possible to change the naming convention of files to reflect the render type used? ie. biMLT12345.png, HYBRID12345.png i think this could be very usefull and adds much more meaning than the img prefix currently used.

carbon · Post by **carbon** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 6:35 pm

useful maybe for tests, but why still making some tests? i only see tests lately here...

mrCarnivore · Post by **mrCarnivore** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:37 pm

xrok1 wrote:would it be possible to change the naming convention of files to reflect the render type used? ie. biMLT12345.png, HYBRID12345.png i think this could be very usefull and adds much more meaning than the img prefix currently used.

That idea is not too bad, but when you start at that, why don't you also want the rendertime in the name, and maybe the number of materials and the name of the 3dfile it was rendererd from...
The list is endless.

You could rather rename the file yourself after rendering and name it exactly like you want to. If you make render tests with different modes, rename the files according to the modes, if you make renders with different times, rename the renders according to the rendertime, and so on...

deltaepsylon · Post by **deltaepsylon** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:49 pm

lol, true mrcarnivore.
@carbon: the latest version of indigo is v.9t6 i beleive, and everyone is trying to test the features and speedup that ono built into it. when it goes stable, im sure were gonna go nuts making better *final* renders

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zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:03 am

You can just modify your exporter to pass a rendername to indigo that does that, now.

StompinTom · Post by **StompinTom** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:07 am

hell, screw the xml file, just store the scene data in the file name!

somekind of naming convention would be cool, though, as an option at least. sometimes it gets pretty confusing when youre looking through a list of renders that are named 'img6939184571152349587619' or whatever.

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:43 am

You guys don't use your own names for rendered images? Why?
Seems very confusing

deltaepsylon · Post by **deltaepsylon** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 2:59 am

to do that you use the -o tag right?

@stompintom, cant you just switch to thumbnail view to see the the images?

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 3:03 am

deltaepsylon wrote:to do that you use the -o tag right?

Yes.

xrok1 · Post by **xrok1** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:52 pm

does skindigo have an o tag? i don't think so. i don't know about the other exporters but i don't do command line.

if this is possible then maybe my request should've been made to Whaat regarding skindigo?

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:47 pm

Yeah, i'd say it's for Whaat

Are you sure it isn't implemented already in Skindigo?

xrok1 · Post by **xrok1** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 1:12 am

not positive, but i sure haven't seen it anywhere.

StompinTom · Post by **StompinTom** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:22 am

yeah but im just saying. say you render a bunch of stuff over the weekend, come back and have to sort files quickly and are looking at a list of files, itd be slightly more convenient to be able to find them quicker.
no big deal, really, small detail.

suvakas · Post by **suvakas** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 4:53 am

And? What's your point? The naming is still up to an exporter with the exception that you can't rename igi files. But there already was a thread about that.

StompinTom · Post by **StompinTom** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 5:13 am

me or xrok1?

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