Thank you for your help! That got me closer to what I need, but I've
discovered that outFormatExt is not working the way I thought it was. It's
essentially doing nothing as far as I can tell because my frames are still
rendering with the name.ext.# format that "defaultRenderGlobals.animation"
1; sets. I'm also having trouble figuring out how to find the render node
that should be giving me the hints I need. I've never used the node editor
before outside of using it within Hypershade to add noise to shaders and
other sources are saying it should be in the attribute editor, but I'm
seeing no such node unless I'm confusing it for something else??? At any
rate, I don't know how to find the Default Render Globals node or anything
like it. I've got the render settings up, but changing the "Frame/
Animation ext setting doesn't print anything in the script editor like it
does when you change the compression of an exr or move an object.
On Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 8:43:25 PM UTC-4 Professor van Dusen wrote:
> Hi Shea, selecting the node in maya will give you the hints you need, if
> you want to go down this route, in mel it would be:
>
> setAttr "defaultRenderGlobals.animation" 1;
> setAttr "defaultRenderGlobals.animationRange" 0;
>
> then you can set the start, end etc
>
> setAttr "defaultRenderGlobals.startFrame" 1001;
> setAttr "defaultRenderGlobals.endFrame" 1100;
>
> hope that helps
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 01:17, Shea Crowley <sheard...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Update- This bit of code
>>
>> cmds.setAttr("defaultRenderGlobals.outFormatControl", 2)
>> cmds.setAttr("defaultRenderGlobals.outFormatExt", "name.#.ext", type =
>> "string")
>> cmds.setAttr("defaultRenderGlobals.extensionPadding", 4)
>>
>> sort of works except that it's still only rendering one frame because
>> the Frame/ Animation Ext. dropdown is still set to a single frame setting
>> so I still need to figure out how to access that specific attribute with
>> python and it continues to elude me.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, May 30, 2023 at 7:05:28 PM UTC-4 Shea Crowley wrote:
>>
>>> I cannot for the life of me figure out how to change the
>>> frame/animation extension setting using Python. I found this
>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/python_inside_maya/c/-J1ObYvzCRQ/m/LpbQMBB1jrQJ>
>>>
>>> conversation in this group very helpful for a similar problem, but I can't
>>> figure out how to find the nodes their talking about for troubleshooting
>>> other things and I'm worried it might be because they were in Maya 2016.
>>>
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