Hello all!

There’s something I’ve been wrestling with for a while now, and I thought maybe one of you might know a workaround for it.

I need to have my frame number displayed on my preview (avi or frames) but I also need to have DoF.  So the problem is, DoF is a post process, and it blurs out the frame number after it does the pass.  I need the actual Max frame number, as a 3rd party frame count just isn’t reliable enough.

Anyone?

Thanks!

Corey

Make two versions, one with and one without DOF,
then put the one with the clear frame numbers over the other one and mask out everything but where the frame number are?

Max 2012
Windows 7 64 SP1

I modified a script i put together for “Displaying” the 3dsmax file name & path in a viewport slider.  That way when I do previews I can burn that information into the preview.

I just quickly modified that script to do frame numbers for you.

It does work when you do a preview with DOF, one note - first frame number is off by one.  Not sure why - if i get time I’ll look into it

Just run the script and click “add”

Make sure to remove the tag before you save the max file.  Its actually creating a viewport callback just for the current max session.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

Joe

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