Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Rendering filename bug in 7.0.1?

Category: rendering

It seems that when directly renaming files using the new filenaming syntax in 7.0.1, Maya will automatically append a "_tmp" string to the end of the filename when "%c" is used.

For example, if the filename is "/u/user/renders/file_%c_%4n.%e", then the filename would turn out to be "/u/user/renders/file_camera_0001_tmp.ext". If the camera flag is not used, such as "/u/user/renders/files_%4n.%e", then the file would go under the the folder "$Project_Dir/images/u/user/renders/files_0001.ext". Sucks eh.

The workaround for now is only to correct the "_tmp" by renaming everything using a shell/batch script. ( Or don't use %c at all and have everything saved under $Project_dir/images ).

I don't recall seeing this problem in 7.0. Could this be something that's introduced by the 7.0.1 patch?

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