Frame number padding in 3Ds Max

[christian_sodergren]

Hello!

A simple question with a hopefully simple answer.

How do you set the frame number padding in 3ds max when rendering a sequence of frames?

Some software let you add some ###### representing the padding, but this doesn't work in 3ds max.

/Christian

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[MartinBeh]

Just enter "image_.png" into the render output field, for example, and 3ds Max will append the frame number to your filename (e.g. image_0000.png, image_0001.png etc.) when rendering a range of frames. That number is padded with zeros to always have four digits. For frame 10000 and above the number will have five (or more) digits with no additional leading zeros.

You can also enter "image..png" to get "image.0000.png", for example.

What output format do you need?

[christian_sodergren]

Thanks, but that is exactly what I would like to control. I can't have four digits and five digits in the same sequence. It has to be the same number of frame padding everywhere. When I later use the sequence in other software, the sequence will get cut off where the digits go from four to five. Of course I can rename the first 10.000 files with an extra '0' but it would be a lot easier to tell 3ds max to use five or six digits when rendering in the first place just like many other rendering software.

Output is 8 bit png with alpha. I make sequences that are several minutes long in 60 fps.

[MartinBeh]

As long as you stay below 2:47 minutes at 60 fps... 😉

But seriously I don't think there is an easy solution in 3ds Max that is better than renaming files (one could use MAXScript with a render callback to instantly rename the last file but is that much better?).