Rendered images without frame number?

[SheikMorris]

Thank you for this great addon. I have a small question, I have 1 camera used in the scene and marker name on timeline frames for example banana, watermelon, apple, strawberry, etc.

I will use "$MARKER"

This will nicely export the images by name on the timeline - that's fine.
It just automatically creates a numbering after the marker name

banana0001
watermelon0002
apple0003
strawberry0004

I would like just marker names without numbers at the end.

Is it possible?

Thank you, Martin

[p2or]

Hi @SheikMorris,

thanks for your request. As of the current state, removing the frame number from the file name is not possible. Would be easy to implement, but this would introduce many drawbacks especially with regard to the uniqueness of each frame, e.g. What if you accidentally named the marker of frame 1 the same as the marker of frame 10? In worst case, you would have wait another hour for frame 1 because it has been overwritten by frame 10. I totally understand why you need this and why it would save you time. However, as you can see from the example given, it is not an easy decision to support that as this potentially wastes a lot of time and energy as well.

From my point of view, it is safest to remove the frame number after all images have been rendered either by using e.g. a shell script or python add-on for Blender. As a proof of concept, the following extension for Loom allows to press CtrlShiftAltF2 and removes the frame numbers from all files within a given folder: loom_post-render-rename.py - you can install it like a regular add-on, extract the archive, in Blender open up User Preferences > Addons, click Install from File, select loom_post-render-rename.py and activate it usual:

Does this help? If you have a better idea, all suggestions are welcome.

Cheers,
Christian

[p2or]

For the record: Another idea might be to introduce a new toggle on the right side of the 'path preview' area that can be activated before rendering in order to automatically rename the images after the entire process (without an extra window).

If anyone has time to test the changes, please replace Loom with the version from the dedicated branch and report back. The panel mentioned above is part of this patch as well and can be used to rename the images 'manually' using CtrlShiftAltF2 (make sure to remove the extension in the first place if already installed). I would appreciate any feedback or discussion.

Cheers,
Christian

[SheikMorris]

Hi @p2or this is awesome 👍,

thank you very much for adding this feature.
I tried the first one you sent here and it worked.
Now I wanted to write a thank you feedback and I see this.

I tried it right now too and it's great and it works.
I believe it could also be useful for other people

Thank you very much once again

Martin

[p2or]

Hi @SheikMorris,

thanks for your feedback - glad that it works so well. FYI: Just updated the extension in order to restrict renaming to non-sequential frames, which should avoid most issues but I can't be 100% sure, there are too many exceptions... Since I do not need this feature for my own work, I would appreciate if you would test it extensively, thanks.

Side note: After testing both ideas yesterday, I can say that even though it is an extra step for the user, the initial idea of the panel feels better to me because it is a more conscious decision. If you disagree or have a better idea, please let me know.

Cheers,
Christian