[Bf-committers] Feature request: Save and shutdown after finished rendering

[Alexander Ewering]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Jonathan Merritt wrote:

> Bart wrote:
> 
> > I would be nice if Blender could have an option that saves the 
> > rendering to a given file name and directory (just now you can only 
> > setup file format and quality)
> 
> 
> You can set the file name and directory already - they appear in the 
> output pic directory field (the top box of the "Output" panel).  Examples:
> 
> //tmp/
> Will save your files as 0001*, 0002*, etc., in the /tmp directory.
> 
> //tmp/file
> Will save your files as file0001*, file0002*, etc., in the /tmp directory.

Sorry, but you're mistaken.

"/tmp/" and "/tmp/file" respectively will do what you said,
"//tmp/" will save the files in the directory "tmp" BELOW the
directory where your blend file is stored.

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