3DSMax Batch Rendering Tricks

This is for those who only have one PC at their hands. Sometimes when you need to render a couple of scenes at once so that you can move on to other work rather than wait for a scene to finish then reconfigure everything again you can use these tricks. AFAIK 3dsmax 8 have this new facility called "batch render" but I never got to that facility yet.

The first one is to use the backburner facility. Backburner is actually 3DSMax rendering farm facility. Its main purpose is really to spread the job around several computers at once so the rendering take less time. But it can also be used for batch rendering. This is quite simple. Just start up backburner manager and server on your PC, and then at the render dialog check the "net render" checkbox, and you're done. Open up the other scene, check the "net render" checkbox again, and do the same to the rest of your scenes. This would put the next scene into the queue. Add as many scenes you want and let the computer work for you. Go out and have a beautiful life.

The second one is when you have one scene but you want to render it with different views at once. You can use Video Post facility with this. Open up video post, add a scene event and output event. Configure them to your likings. For other views, just add another scene event and output event.

Hope that helps