Hide or reuse Rhino Render Window while batch rendering

I have written a script that will loop changing the suns position and then rendering an image to create a series of shadow diagrams and that's all working fine.

However running the script means that a new render window is created each time one render is completed making it difficult to anything else in rhino while its running as the render window keeps taking focus.

Is there a way to either reuse the same render window and i can manually minimize it, or some other way to make it so rhino rather than the render windows are always on top?

Im writing this in c#

Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Giulio Piacentino on February 4, 2014 at 9:19am

Hi pat

I've experimented with similar things in the past, and I would recommend not to do other operations as you are running a script that renders a scene. I would suggest to let the whole thing on its own -- it's already quite a bit of magic running just there.

What makes you feel that you need to do additional operations there?

Thanks

Giulio

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Permalink Reply by pat on February 4, 2014 at 3:33pm

Hi Giulio,

Thank you for your reply.

Its not a huge problem really, its more of a user experience issue that other people have mentioned when using the script.

The render window constantly popping up can be frustrating when trying to do other things on your computer inside/outside of rhino. For the most part the script is being used for very simple renders and there's virtually no point in trying to do anything on the computer at all while its running as the render window takes focus every few seconds, for more complex renders its less frustrating.

I figured I'd just put out there to see if there's a way around it that I've missed so I can make the tool a bit more appealing.

pat

Permalink Reply by Matthieu Bouchaud on March 28, 2016 at 9:36am

Hi pat,

I'm trying to do a shadow diagram and i'm manually moving the sun position and press render for every hour of the day. Would you agree to post your script here ? It will save me a lot of time.

Thank you in advance,

Matthieu

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