The objective is to create a movie of all the layer states in my model. About the time I get them all saved, something happens and I loose them all before I can get them added to the movie. Thanks in advance. David

You can give this simple script a whirl. It saves all named layer states to the desktop folder as PNGs with the naming format [layerstatename]_layerstate_capture.png. It uses the active viewport at time of starting of the script as well as the active display mode for that viewport. batchrender_lay…

I just did a quick search: [image] Python: How can I create a Layer State? Scripting I don’t believe any layer state functions were added to rhinoscriptsyntax.

Thank you Martin, the 36 layer states are already there. I just want images of the viewport, such as .png for each layer state arranged by 3 digit leading integer, e.g. 001-sample description thru 036-sample description much appreciated

Yes I got that. The important bit of information I get out of that other topic is that apparently isn’t a way to retrieve the layer states with rhinoscriptsyntax. Rhino - RhinoScriptSyntax The guide also does not have anything about Layer States. The new Grasshopper Rhino components also don’t se…

You don’t need to use RhinoScriptSyntax. It’ll be much easier to use RhinoCommon directly from Python. You’ll be using NamedLayerStateTable Methods to get all the state names, then loop over those and restore each in turn. Then do a view capture with ViewCapture.CaptureToBitmap Method (ViewCaptureS…

Yes, probably for good reason, as in a better way of accomplishing the objective

Wow! Awesome! Amazing! Thanks for the links, especially. I’ll give it a whirl.

This forum never disappoints. I’ll have to wait until I get to feeling like sitting up a little better to give it a whirl. Gotta go lie down now. Thanks a million, Nathan

[image] saucerdesigner: Gotta go lie down now. I probably should too, it is 02:01 in the morning :slight_smile: [image] saucerdesigner: Thanks a million, Nathan You’re welcome (:

If I remember correctly, the version of MultiViewCapture plugin I posted a while ago apart from NamedViews also let’s you pick which LayerStates to capture: [image] Screen capture all viewports? Rhino for Windows MultiViewCapture.rhp (87 KB) Try this version, I might have…

Didn’t test it, but probably is good. Anyway, the code I posted also serves only as the bare minimum base, good for learning purposes.

Batch process ScreenCaptureToFile of all 36 layer states in my model

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martinsiegrist (Martin Siegrist) February 28, 2025, 10:52pm 2

I just did a quick search:

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Batch process ScreenCaptureToFile of all 36 layer states in my model

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