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Renderer

Object Hierarchy | Related C++ Class: Renderer

Inheritance

SIObject
   Renderer

Introduced

7.0

Description

The Renderer object holds read-only information on a particular rendering engine registered with Softimage. The list of rendering engines can be accessed through XSIApplication.Renderers

Methods

Properties

Examples

JScript Example

// Print out information on all registered rendering engines.
function printRenderer( renderer )
{
   var aProcessNames = new Array( "Rendering", "Scene Archive Export", "Object Archive Export" );

   LogMessage( "Renderer: " + renderer.Name );
   var aTypes = renderer.ProcessTypes.toArray();
   var aProcessTypes = new Array();

   for( var type in aTypes )
       aProcessTypes.push( aProcessNames[ type ] );

   LogMessage( "  Process types: " + aProcessTypes.join( ", " ) );

   LogMessage( "  Render options name: " + renderer.PropertyName( siRenderPropertyOptions ) );

   if( renderer.ProcessType( siRenderProcessExportArchive ) )
   {
       var sceneArchive = renderer.SceneArchiveInfo
       LogMessage( "  Scene Archive:" );
       LogMessage( "    Name: " + sceneArchive.Name );
       LogMessage( "    File Extension: " + sceneArchive.Extension );
       LogMessage( "    Multiframe Support: " + sceneArchive.Multiframe );
   }

   if( renderer.ProcessType( siRenderProcessExportObjectArchive ) )
   {
       var objectArchive = renderer.ObjectArchiveInfo
       LogMessage( "  Object Archive:" );
       LogMessage( "    Name: " + objectArchive.Name );
       LogMessage( "    File Extension: " + objectArchive.Extension );
       LogMessage( "    Multiframe Support: " + objectArchive.Multiframe );
       LogMessage( "    Display Proxy Support: " + objectArchive.DisplayProxy );
   }

   var oChannels = new VBArray( renderer.DefaultChannels ).toArray();

   if( oChannels.length > 0 )
   {
       var sTypeNames = new Array( "Unknown", "Color", "Grayscale", "Depth", "Normal", "Vector", "Label" );

       LogMessage( "  Provided channels:" );
       for( var i = 0; i < oChannels.length; i += 2 )
          LogMessage( "    " + oChannels[ i ] + " (" + sTypeNames[ oChannels[ i + 1 ] ] + ")" );
   }

   var oFormats = new VBArray( renderer.OutputFormats ).toArray();
   if( oFormats.length > 0 )
   {
       var aFormatList = new Array( );
       for( var i = 0; i < oFormats.length; i += 2 )
          aFormatList.push( oFormats[ i ] + " (\"" + oFormats[ i + 1 ] + "\")" );

       LogMessage( "  Provided output formats: " + aFormatList.join( ", " ) );
   }

   LogMessage( "" );
}

var e = new Enumerator( Application.Renderers );
for( ; !e.atEnd(); e.moveNext() )
   printRenderer( e.item() );

See Also

Autodesk Softimage v7.5     <     >