File Output Wildcards¶

What if you want to quickly set up a file different output path for all your scenes / cameras / view layers ?

Wildcards are tokens that you can add to your output file path in Blender.

They will be automatically replaced by the related property name in the output file path.

It’s a time saver since you don’t have to specify a unique path for each item. Set it up only once in Blender, send it to BRQ and each item gets a unique path based on the selected scenes / cameras / view layers.

Currently supported wildcard tokens¶

$scene : will be replaced by the selected scene name
$camera : will be replaced by the selected camera name
$viewlayer : will be replaced by the selected view layer name

Example¶

Assuming you have a project called room with 3 cameras Main-camera, Picture-camera, Window-camera

Save to different folders

In the Blender output settings, enter the desired tokens for the output path :

C:\Users\stephane\room\$camera\animation.png

If you choose to add all cameras to the queue, then the file output paths for each item in the queue will be replaced by :

C:\Users\stephane\room\Main-camera\animation.png

C:\Users\stephane\room\Picture-camera\animation.png

C:\Users\stephane\room\Window-camera\animation.png

Save to different files

In the Blender output settings, enter the desired tokens for the output path :

C:\Users\stephane\room\animation-$camera.png

If you choose to add all cameras to the queue, then the file output paths for each item in the queue will be replaced by :

C:\Users\stephane\room\animation-Main-camera.png

C:\Users\stephane\room\animation-Picture-camera.png

C:\Users\stephane\room\animation-Window-camera.png