Preprocessing document before rendering [SOLVED]

On 10/06/2015 at 03:00, xxxxxxxx wrote:

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Hi! I use MSG_MULTI_RENDERNOTIFICATION to modify a document before it is rendered. For instance,
inserting an object works, but modifying the active render settings does not. I guess this is because there
is a BaseContainer passed for the render settings on RenderDocument().

I see that I can read and write the render settings via Render::GetRenderData() and
Render::SetRenderData(), but how would I then go about modifying settings for a Video Post?

switch (msg) {
  case MSG_MULTI_RENDERNOTIFICATION: {
    auto* data = static_cast<RenderNotificationData*>(pdata);
    if (!data->start || !data->external) break;
    data->doc->InsertObject(BaseObject::Alloc(Ocube));  
    BaseContainer bc = data->render->GetRenderData();  
    bc.SetFilename(RDATA_PATH, "");
    data->render->SetRenderData(bc);
    if (bc.GetInt32(RDATA_RENDERENGINE) == VRAYBRIDGE_ID) {
       // todo: How would I go about changing settings for the Vray Bridge video post here (or any other)?
    }
    break;
  }
}

Thanks in advance!
Niklas

On 10/06/2015 at 07:21, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hello,

as always you can edit the settings of a video post by simply looping trough the video posts starting with GetFirstVideoPost(). You could access the needed RenderData from the document link of the RenderNotificationData. See also "Getting settings from VRay RenderData?".

Best wishes,
Sebastian

On 10/06/2015 at 07:39, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Hi Sebastian,

Do you mean like this?

RenderData* data = rnotif_data->doc->GetActiveRenderData();
// Find Vray Video Post in RenderData ..

That's actually what I have already tried, but I'll check again.

Thanks,
Niklas

On 10/06/2015 at 07:56, xxxxxxxx wrote:

Here is code that I use as an example.  Hopefully this works at render notification.  Note that I am using the active document (just fyi).   PLUGINID_VRAYBRIDGE is simply an enumeration to the plugin ID.

// Enable/Disable GI in VrayBridge
// - RenderData guaranteed never to be NULL! ;)
RenderData*	pRenderData =	pDoc->GetActiveRenderData();
if (!pRenderData)
	return;
for (BaseVideoPost* pBVP = pRenderData->GetFirstVideoPost(); pBVP != NULL; pBVP = pBVP->GetNext())
{
	if (pBVP->IsInstanceOf(PLUGINID_VRAYBRIDGE))
	{
		pBVP->SetParameter(DescID(VP_VRAYBRIDGE_GI_ON), GeData(m_bIBLCalculation), DESCFLAGS_SET_DONTCHECKMINMAX);
		pBVP->Message(MSG_CHANGE);
		EventAdd();
		break;
	}
}

On 10/06/2015 at 23:35, xxxxxxxx wrote:

That is actually what I was already doing, but from Python. I might have been testing wrong, because it
works now that I'm doing it from C++ and I see no reason why it should not have worked from Python.
My fault I guess :)

Thanks! -Niklas