Batch Render!

I’d love to see a batch render option.

Yeah! I also wish I could sleep and Filter Forge would spit out all sorts of random combos. Esp. with the slower filters that take many minutes to render. I do like the batch renderer in Genetica, which gave me plenty of raw material to mess up when I awoke.

Batch render would be awesome, especially if you could set maximum and minimum limits on each of the controls. And also maybe have a right click option to render all lighting options (keep settings but change hdri map).

I'm making progress on a very simple batch render utility that I can use in Corel Photo-Paint. Its input is a script that has recorded the opening of an image file, the application of a filter, and the saving of the modified image. The utility generates a new script which, one at a time, opens all images in the initially referenced directory, applies the filter, and saves each to the referenced output directory. This accomplishes nothing different to Corel's inbuilt batch operation. But...

What I can do -- using Corel's native effects -- is record the application of the same filter at two different settings and the utility will script all the intermediate values across the images in the chosen directory. eg:

test000.jpg ... SketchPadStyle=12 as recorded
test001.jpg ... SketchPadStyle=14 auto generated
test002.jpg ... SketchPadStyle=16 as recorded

Unfortunately the script record of an FF filter does not contain any setting information eg:
.EffectPlugin "Filter Forge", "Filter Forge...", 0, 0, ""
The effect applied is simply the last filter used as a plug-in or in stand alone mode; there seems no record or recent settings which might be somehow hacked or tweaked.

Any suggestions for home-brew animation?

BTW, very new to this amazing program -- just 5 days into the trial version and in awe of what all you out there are doing!