Maxscript: render() with watermark

[pixelmord]

Hi,

hope you can help me with this. I'm new to scripting in Max and I tried to write a simple utility to render out all camera-views, save an image with a watermark added. All works fine so far, except the watermark won't appear on the renderings by script. after i ran the script, as soon as I render manually via menu the watermark appears correctly like set by the script.

It seems to me as if the render()-function does not implement a watermark functionality??

here's the code:

utility camerarender "Renderpal"
(
bitmap logo filename:"flower.bmp"
edittext prefix_txt "Prefix:" fieldWidth:92
button doit "Render 1024x768"
button doit2 "Render 1600x1200"

on doit pressed do
(
renderers.production = Default_Scanline_Renderer()
renderers.production.renderWatermark = true
renderers.production.watermarkTop = 0
renderers.production.watermarkLeft = 0
renderers.production.watermarkBlend = 0.9
renderers.production.watermarkBitmap = bitmap 1024 768 filename:"renderlogo_1024x768.png"
for a in cameras do
(
if ((classof a) != Targetobject) and (a.ishidden == false) then
(
result = render renderer:#production camera:a frame:#current vfb:on outputwidth:1024 outputheight:768 force2sided:on outputfile:(prefix_txt.text + "_" + a.name + ".jpg")
)
)
)
on doit2 pressed do
(
renderers.production = Default_Scanline_Renderer()
renderers.production.renderWatermark = true
renderers.production.watermarkTop = 0
renderers.production.watermarkLeft = 0
renderers.production.watermarkBlend = 0.9
renderers.production.watermarkBitmap = bitmap 1600 1200 filename:"renderlogo_1600x1200.png"
for a in cameras do
(
if ((classof a) != Targetobject) and (a.ishidden == false) then
(
result = render renderer:#production camera:a frame:#current vfb:on outputwidth:1600 outputheight:1200 force2sided:on outputfile:(prefix_txt.text + "_" + a.name + ".jpg")
)
)
)
)

thanks

[pixelmord]

Solved the Problem myself...

For everybody, who was wondering, the watermark option is only available in 3dsviz..
Maybe that's why the render()-function does not implement this option. I changed my code to do a "max quick render" instead..

here:

utility camerarender "Renderpal"
(
bitmap logo filename:"flower.bmp"
edittext prefix_txt "Prefix:" fieldWidth:92
checkbox enableLogo "Logo" checked: true
button doit "Render 1024x768"
button doit2 "Render 1600x1200"

on doit pressed do
(
renderers.production = Default_Scanline_Renderer()
renderers.production.renderWatermark = enableLogo.checked
renderers.production.watermarkTop = 0
renderers.production.watermarkLeft = 0
renderers.production.watermarkBlend = 1
renderers.production.watermarkBitmap = bitmap 1024 768 filename:"renderlogo_1024x768.png"
renderHeight = 768
renderWidth = 1024

for a in cameras do
(
  if ((classof a) != Targetobject) and (a.ishidden == false) then
  (
    viewport.setCamera a
    rendOutputFilename =  "F:" + prefix\_txt.text + "\_" + a.name + ".jpg"
    max quick render
  )
)

)
on doit2 pressed do
(
renderers.production = Default_Scanline_Renderer()
renderers.production.renderWatermark = enableLogo.checked
renderers.production.watermarkTop = 0
renderers.production.watermarkLeft = 0
renderers.production.watermarkBlend = 1
renderers.production.watermarkBitmap = bitmap 1600 1200 filename:"renderlogo_1600x1200.png"
renderHeight = 1200
renderWidth = 1600
for a in cameras do
(
if ((classof a) != Targetobject) and (a.ishidden == false) then
(
viewport.setCamera a
rendOutputFilename = "F:" + prefix_txt.text + "_" + a.name + ".jpg"
max quick render
)
)
)
)