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Opened by Mike H - 2010-08-20
Last edited by Thorsten Fröhlich - 2011-08-23
Opened by Mike H - 2010-08-20
Last edited by Thorsten Fröhlich - 2011-08-23
FS#164 - Date/time stamp on rendered images
I’d like to request the ability to create a date/time stamp on output images so that new renders don’t always overwrite old ones. Thanks.
...they would be appended to the file names just to be clear.
Just a thought (not even suggesting a solution) or more:
This is better solved using the pre-scene shellout feature to invoke a shell script or batch file that re-names the old output file according to whatever convention you wish.
"should it postfix the filename, but before the extension, or prefix the filename in the directory path"
The former, probably. For example:
"testscene_2010-08-21_13:54:22.png"
Or something similar.
"if using some escape/special char in output filename, that could break actually working script with fancy names, so would you instead specify a new switch to trigger that behaviour ?"
Not sure what exactly you mean, but yes it would be better to turn the feature on/off using an INI option so that people who don't want it can disable it.
"Date format: might i suggest the iso 8601 format"
Good idea.