Grasshopper vray render component: custom naming scheme for output files

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Hi all,
I’m using the vray render and vray timeline components to render variations of a product.

Each variation has a unique, non sequential product number. I’ve got those numbers available as a list inside my definition, and would like to assign them to the output images created by the vray render component.

By default, I only get to define the output file name (i.e. product.png).
The component will name the output images like this:
product.0000.png
product.0001.png
product.0002.png
etc.
I suppose the numbers behind the dot (.0001) correspond to the frame count of the vray timeline component.

Instead, I would like to have something like this:
product.123456.png
product.234567.png
product.765432.png
(234567 etc. being the unique product numbers from my list)

Any thoughts how to achieve this?
Thanks!

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In short you can’t
That is because the timeline component is designed to render animations. What you’re trying to achieve here is called “configuration” in the CAD software (f.e. Solidworks). In Rhino terms that is a snapshot.

You’re better off render each image as a separate still image. You can use a small script to automate the task.

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Thanks @Nikolay