🧐 How to

Lets go through the plugin and how it works.

Open CLO 3D and start the plugin from the Render Menu. After a slight delay of a couple of seconds the main plugin window should appear over the CLO 3D window. At this point, CLO 3D window won’t be accessible for any interactions until you close (or render is finished) the plugin:

Lets look into the plugin fields and settings:

1. Choose the folder with your .zprj file(s)

   1. When choosing the folder, make sure to select at least one file while browsing for this folder. Doesn’t matter which one. All files next to it (in that folder) will be taken for the rendering.

2. You can choose to render ALL colorways ( ✅ ) or only the current colorway that is active in the .zprj file ( 🔳 )

3. You can choose to either use the folder where you have saved the predefined views (.zcmr files from CLO 3D menu: Display > Viewpoint > Custom Views), or the views from the .zprj files.

   1. There is another option for this when working with the Render Settings file (.vmp). We will cover it below (7.a).

4. If you have saved your .zprj files with the correct settings already, there is no need to manually select custom settings #6. The plugin will use these saved settings when rendering.

5. This is how you can specify to use custom settings that you have saved externally, outside of CLO 3D. You can choose any or all of the settings below.

6. These are the Image/Video Properties from the CLO 3D application. They can be found here in CLO 3D and saved as a file:

   

   1. Here is an important note on the duplication of some of the settings between AutoRender plugin and the settings for rendering that are set here and saved as .vmp file.

   You can see that here you can also choose Viewpoint (views) and Colorway options. Here is how these settings work together:

   • If you choose to use setting #3 from above in the AutoRender plugin, then your .vmp settings have to have the Viewpoint set to Current

   • If you choose to use setting #2 from above in the AutoRender plugin, then your .settings have to have the Colorway set to Current

     However you can also let the .vmp control these settings without using settings #2 and #3 from the AutoRender plugin.

     For example:

     • If you do not use setting #2 in the AutoRender plugin, but in your .VMP that you choose to use via the settings #6 + #7 you have Colorway set to All , then the AutoRender plugin will still render ALL COLORWAYS (even though in the AutoRender plugin itself you didn’t tick the setting #2).

     Our suggestion: To have more clear control over what is going to happen, we suggest to always save your .vmp file with Viewpoint and Colorway settings set to Current and control these settings via the UI of the AutoRender plugin (settings #2 and #3).

7. Here you can choose to use the saved before .vlp file that has the light settings that you can see in the CLO 3D itself:

1. Here you can choose to use the saved before .vrp file that has the quality settings that you can see in the CLO 3D itself:

1. ❗IMPORTANT NOTE:

The Render Engine settings are not saved by CLO 3D in this file. However, they will be stored in CLO 3D itself. We advise to set these settings according to you machine (CPU / GPU, etc.) ahead and use the .vrp file for Noise Threshold, Max Render Time and the rest of the settings.

1. Here you can specify the output folder for the rendered images