Patrick,
It's hard work pretending to be Damien.
Anyway, I played around with the script and I got it to work so here's
a couple things to note:
_The VB component updates with GH events (unless you disable the
setting under Solutions). Updating with GH events is what you want
when you are rendering out the animation (as the slider ticks along),
but before that any changes you make in GH will also cause a render to
occur.
_It may help you to set the x variable hint type to OnBrep as a
reminder. The script is only setup to render a single BRep object.
_Elizabeth was right. The extra double quotes in my .jpg file name
wont allow the file save. The double quotes symbol is represented by
the variable Chr(34) so removing them solves the problem. For
example:
Dim filename As String = "C:\GH_Animation\frame" & y & ".jpg"
-taz
On May 7, 5:53 am, Patrick <pbed...@gmail.com> wrote:
> taz,
>
> I tried different things: changing file types like png, jpg or bmp. (I
> have to mention that I count myself completely to the script virgins)
> I just inserted the code from Damien into a VB comp. If I connect an
> object (i.e. geometry inside a bounding box) to the x input rhino
> immediately starts to render an image. If I then connect a number
> slider (which is also rotating the bbox geo) into the y input of the
> VB comp it does the same thing again. For an animation from stills I
> just need to animate the slider in a usual way and GH starts to
> extract stills from slider positions and synchroniusly tells rhino to
> render the scene in vray.
>
> It all seems to work well but the destination folder remains empty!
>
> On 7 Mai, 09:23, taz <tzez...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Patrick,
>
> > From the code it looks like your slider should be attached to a
> > variable named "y" and the output to your destination folder (on your
> > D:\ drive in a folder named GH_Animation) should be a .bmp.
>
> > Is that what you have for a setup?
>
> > -taz
>
> > On May 6, 11:42 am, Patrick <pbed...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > He guys
>
> > > for animation purposes I tried out a small VB script from Damien
>
> > > Dim obj As IRhinoBrepObject = doc.AddBrepObject(x)
> > > doc.Regen()
>
> > > Dim filename As String = "D:\GH_Animation\frame" & Chr(34) & y &
> > > Chr(34) & ".bmp"
>
> > > app.RunScript("-_Render")
> > > app.RunScript("-_SaveRenderWindowAs "& Chr(34) & filename & Chr
> > > (34) )
> > > app.RunScript("-_CloseRenderWindow")
>
> > > doc.DeleteObject(New MRhinoObjRef(obj), True, True)
>
> > > I made it that Rhino is obviously rendering all images choosen from an
> > > animated slider connected to the component. It shows me "Image
> > > successfully saved as D:\GH_Animation\frame"4".jpg" in the command
> > > line but the destination folder remains empty!
>
> > > Can you help Damien?
