Alarm for V-ray (SOLVED)

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An extension witch plays some music or pop a msgbox once V-ray has finished render.
Any aproach ideas on this?

I found no prints of it on SU console but it has its own "V-ray progress window":

V-ray progress window.png

Could we acess/detect its last logs?

obs: I use V-ray 3.6 on SU2018 on Win10-64bits

Thanks

[Tax]

Just realized V-ray changes its toolbar icons while rendering:

V-ray toolbar.png

bet the best aproach would be an observer; would appreciate help on coding it.

[Tax]

Realized that eventually it may end up on UI::Command class matter.
So I'm thinking about a simplier (even shitty) workaround:

1º aproach: observer
2º aproach: toolbar class?
3º aproach: pixel color <<<

v-ray stop.png

New questions: (assuming its always gonna be the same pixel coord)
- How to read screen pixels? directly?
- Screenshot? how to write and read?
- is "color check at every 10s" a good practice? better suggestion?

[Tax]

(SOLVED)

It`s actually pretty simple. Thanks to DanRathbun on:
https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-to-tell-if-v-ray-render-has-finished/133293

Code: Select all

if VRay::LiveScene.active.rendering?
   @Timer = UI.start_timer(5,true) {
      if !VRay::LiveScene.active.rendering?
         print "Render is complete."
         UI.beep
         UI.stop_timer(@Timer)
         break
      end
      print "V-ray render check"
   }
else
   print "Render hasn't started. Try again."
end


Works like a charm!

[Dan Rathbun]

Just a note that calling the == method with a true or false argument for a Boolean conditional expression is considered poor practice.

Ie, ...
if VRay::LiveScene.active.rendering? == false
... it is completely unnecessary to make a method call here as the Vray::LiveScene method calls return a Boolean result and the interpreters if evaluates the Boolean expression.

So the interpreter must evaluate an extra expression that is either:
false == false or true == false

[Tax]

Thanks, its fixed now.

You always pro