Is there any way to trigger the Bitmap format settings dialog (for EXR, TIFF, PNG, etc.) directly from MaxScript?
I know how to configure the BitmapIO classes programmatically (for example using "jpegio.setQuality"), but for my batch rendering plugin I’d like users to access the native format configuration dialogs instead — the same ones that appear when saving an image or setting the output file in the Render Setup dialog.
I understand that once a BitmapIO class is configured, its settings persist for the entire 3ds Max session, which is ideal for my workflow since multiple scenes can reuse the same configuration.
So my question is:
Is there any way to call these format-setting UIs directly from MaxScript, or is the only workaround to do something “hacky” — like creating a temporary bitmap, saving it to trigger the configuration dialog, and then deleting it again?
It would make sense if these IO settings were accessible through a natively callable UI interface in MaxScript.
I attached an example image of the dialog I mean.
