scripted IFL file

[Anonymous]

I'm having trouble using an image sequence of about 20000 tiff files as a bitmap. Max seems to be choking when creating the IFL file. It either returns to the Material Editor without the IFL, or just crashes. So I'm trying to script the IFL file.

 f = createfile "C:\\file.txt"
txt = "" 
for i = 1 to 20000 do
(
txt = ("image_" + i as string + ".tif")
format txt to: f
format "\n" to: f
i += 1
)
close f

My problem is that I need five digits at the end of all file names. For example, image_00002.tif and image_00456.tif. How can I script this?

Thanks
Mark

[Steve_Curley]

See this thread. For 5 digits you'll want "5.5d" instead of the "2.2d" in the FormattedPrint statement.

[Anonymous]

Wow. How did you work that on out from the Help file?

Works great. Thanks!

[Steve_Curley]

With difficulty, as I recall. Back in 2008 sometime, according to what the search finds 😉

[PiXeL_MoNKeY]

It has also been posted numerous times, across numerous forums. I think that is where I first learned about formattedprint.

-Eric

[Anonymous]

maybe too late but here is some tips to create .ifl for existing files.

1. via MaxScript:

dir = GetDir #renderoutput + "\\mySubDir"
files = getFiles (dir + "\\*.tiff")
theIFL = createFile (dir + "\\myList.ifl")
for f in files do format "%\n" (filenameFromPath f) to:theIFL
close theIFL

2. or with dos command:

dir *.tiff /b > FileList.ifl

- save above line to text file with extension .bat (e.g. "CreateIFL.bat")
- move the file to your img's folder and just run it.

[Anonymous]

Never too late. That's very useful.
Thank you!

[Anonymous]

That's very nice, but is there a way of doing it so that it doesn't run through all the images in a folder, just the ones with the same name, and a different number.
e.g. if you have file01.png and file02.png and tree01.png in the same folder, can you put only the ones with the same name into an ifl using maxscript?
Thanks a lot

[Steve_Curley]

Either change the line to include the filename (without the trailing numerics), or use the method linked to earlier in the thread.

files = getFiles (dir + "\\SomeFileNameHere*.tiff")

or the other option mentioned above

 dir SomeFileNameHere*.tiff /b > FileList.ifl