Question about Journals and Batch Rendering...

[twiceroadsfool]

Yes, i know its an internal debugging tool, and not an end-user tool, but necessity is the mother, and i found some good info here on setting on a batch rendering journal, so i dont have to babysit my computer. Only thing is:

PC:3DView 1

... will render at the presentation 300 DPI... How do i get it to render at the Custom DPI that i picked in the Settings dialogue? Anyone know?

Thanks in advance...

[twiceroadsfool]

Okay, forget that, lol...

I cant get it to work at all, how do i make an .lis file from a text editor?

UGH, all i want to do is highlight 6 views, and render them at 400 DPI for the morning, LOL...

[truevis]

If you get this to work, PLEASE tell us how it's done.

I've been thinking about it since I saw the rendering benchmark thing.

My other half-baked batch rendering idea is to do a few-frame walk-around at high resolution and pick out the individual frames.

[aaronrumple]

If you get this to work, PLEASE tell us how it's done.

I've been thinking about it since I saw the rendering benchmark thing.

My other half-baked batch rendering idea is to do a few-frame walk-around at high resolution and pick out the individual frames.

That's actually a clever idea....

[twiceroadsfool]

lol... My only other idea is to try opening the file from 8 different computers, rendering and exporting/plotting to PDF for the rendered images, but God that will be annoying...

Tomorrow someone at the office is gonna help me with the journal. Ill report back if i get it to work...

[twiceroadsfool]

If you get this to work, PLEASE tell us how it's done.

I've been thinking about it since I saw the rendering benchmark thing.

My other half-baked batch rendering idea is to do a few-frame walk-around at high resolution and pick out the individual frames.

Well, im certainly not taking credit for figuring this out, as i found the answer in someone elses post from a couple of years ago, but it does work.

I DL'ed a bunch of files from a post that was made here about it...

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.ph...atch+rendering

That was the post. Running the rev.bat file from the command prompt, it generated the code i needed for the bath rendering based on a very very simple text file it asked you to make. The only place it fell short (for me) was that because the *path* to the 3d views is different in out company template, i had to go in to the .txt file it generated and change that in the code. But it took like three minutes.

Im still hoping to figure out how to set it to a custom DPI, and how to get it to *capture* a rendering, instead of just exporting to JPEG.

Im also taking the mod and developers warnings VERY serioously about messing with these. Im not doing it with ANY important files... as its very finicky. Any mistakes in the code and it fatal errors Revit, and kills my file, lol...

[truevis]

> a few-frame walk-around at high resolution and pick out the individual frames

That's actually a clever idea....

One application that can do it is the RAM player in 3DS Max. You can convert frames to .PNGs. There are probably cheaper programs for that around.

[Scott D Davis]

lol... My only other idea is to try opening the file from 8 different computers, rendering and exporting/plotting to PDF for the rendered images, but God that will be annoying...

Tomorrow someone at the office is gonna help me with the journal. Ill report back if i get it to work...

You can render to individual JPGs in Revit, and then compile the frames in another program to make the video. This will allow you to render a portion of the overall on 8 separate machines.

[twiceroadsfool]

You can render to individual JPGs in Revit, and then compile the frames in another program to make the video. This will allow you to render a portion of the overall on 8 separate machines.

Im not really trying to make a movie, its a presentation poster. Its just the sitting in between renderings thats killing our productivity. I got this thing set up, and messed with the code enough to get it to render, capture, and save with export, so im gonna do a test run tonight.

The trouble is cleaning the files so no unexpected msg's come up, cuz it kills it when that happens, lol...

Me wants a batch rendering button

[3dway]

Is this topic still valid for 2009? I've tried it. I was able to follow the instructions and get a txt file that executes revit and opens the correct file, but it always gives me an error that it can't continue to follow the journal and it's entering interactive mode.

I went in and cleared all of the errors in the file. Is there a more recent version.

One thing I notice is that the resolution settings in the instructions don't seem to match what revit offers in it's rendering dialogue. This sets either "camera' or "extents". "Draft" or something else for quality. Doesn't seem current.

Is there a REV.BAT floating around out there for 2009? What else could stop the journal from finishing? The first time I looked in and near the end was a bunch of stuff about errors. I cleared those and the new journal was no good indication of the problem.