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Request for date-time render output variable
Started by sboerner, April 05, 2021, 01:04:42 PM
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sboerner
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Request for date-time render output variable
April 05, 2021, 01:04:42 PM
I'm wondering if it might be possible to add two render output variables to insert the system date and time into a filename. For example:
${DATE} or ${SYSTEMDATE} in YYYYMMDD format so today would be 20210405
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${TIME} or ${SYSTEMTIME} in HH:MM:SS format so the time now would be 13:01:22
You could then build a default output filename something like this:
${TGDNAME}_${SYSTEMDATE}-${SYSTEMTIME}.%04d.exr
so every rendering would get a unique filename.
I'm doing this manually now but having it built in would be cool.
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Re: Request for date-time render output variable
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April 05, 2021, 01:09:52 PM
Id love just to have just the vars themselves that way you could format the way you want. So like {YY}, {MM}, {DD}, {HH}, {MM}, {SS}
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April 06, 2021, 02:31:25 AM
Good idea!
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