I’m trying to save our servers a little work by turning off the Rendered Frame Window at render time.  But there’s a problem.

Is there any reason this option greys out when I check Net Render?  If I uncheck Net Render I can uncheck the option to show the Rendered Frame Window, but when I select Net Render again, of course it greys out.

I’ve tried submitting the jobs via Maxscript and there are 2 ways I can set the VFB [rendered frame window] to OFF through scripting, but once they hit BB they open up the window right away, and if I right click to edit the job settings, I can see that “Display RFW” is always set to yes, but I can change it to No from Monitor.

Is there no way to send the jobs to BB with the Display RFW setting OFF?  I even tried running a prerender script that ONLY turns off the RFW.  The script works fine if I have the file open and try it out without rendering, but setting the script as a prerender script fails.

Is this a bug or is there some explanation? Is there any way around this?

Thanks,
Alexa

Nevermind, I figured it out.  It’s a Backburner default setting I had to find in backburner.xml and change manually.

Now if only they would show me the variable I need to set splitting scanlines as a default!!

EDIT:::
Well I thought changing my backburner defaults would take care of that, but it didn’t make a difference upon trying it through the script.  I think it works for regular usage, though.  How unfortunate.