taz but your doin well ;]
I tried out the changes you told me: 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" You are a genius taz! Thanks a lot man thats great. But for understanding the problem can you explain about theese double quotes? I'm hardly getting behind this scripting chinese until I forced myself to learn the vocabs. pat On 7 Mai, 22:19, taz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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?
