Hey yall,

Just seeing if anyone knows a way for poser to make a sound or popup when it is done with a render?

I normally hit render and surf until I see the CPU hit 0 use again and go back to my next scene.  With poser 7 cutting my rendering in half I am lagging in behind the software now.

Let me know if any of yall know how to do something like this!

-G

I have never heard of a way, but always thought a sound to alert the user that the render has finished (or choked) would be nice.

I would also like to see a Time Taken to Render as well... saves having to use a stop watch at times.

An estimated time for render to complete would be nice as well, but I guess that after Poser had made all the computations it would double the actual time for the render to comlete.. lol

If you render through a script, it's probably pretty easy:

Playing .wav file from within Python:
http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t337346-how-to-play-sound-in-python.html

Playing a sound is easy, at least on a Win computer.  

At the top of the script, among the other import statements, put

import winsound

Then at the point where you want to play the sound, fill in the WAV
file you want, and call PlaySound. 

FileName="C:whateversomething.wav"
winsound.PlaySound(FileName,winsound.SND_FILENAME)

If you want to do this without scripting, you might be able to use a freeware utility from donationcoder.com called ProcessGuard. It lets you monitor Windows programs for certain conditions then take actions when those conditions are met.

In this case, you'd probably set it to watch Poser to see when the CPU utilization drops below a certain amount (<10%?) indicating that the render is done. You could have it play a WAV file when this happens.

It's a bit barebones, as you have to set up events by editing the well-documented INI file, but it is easier than scripting, and it is free. Comes from a cool site too.

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#ProcessGuard

The program is a compiled AutoHotKey script, and you can also download the source file & play around with that too if you want.

Wow!  That utility looks highly useful, not just for Poser.
And the webpage includes dozens of other goodies.

Hiya, Ockham!

Can you see a RenderButton.py; rendering a current scene and then playing a Beep.wav, as at all worthy of use?

Can we get pythons to open with poser?

Angel~

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