Feature Suggestion: render token add support for date and time

[Zijian-Wang]

Hi,

Thanks for making this plugin.

I tried to add globals like $MM to datetime.datetime.now().month.strftime("%m") but it turned out to be false when being evaluated, so instead of having the current month number, I would get NO-MM in the file name.

I tried to add import datetime in the python file but it doesn't change anything. Could you consider adding support for date time in presets?

I would suggest token naming be following:
"$YYYY": datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y"),
"$YY": datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%y"),
"$MM": datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%m"),
"$DD": datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%d"),
"$hh": datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H"),
"$mm": datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%M"),
"$ss": datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%S"),

[p2or]

Hi @Zijian-Wang,

you just forgot to import the datetime module in the first place, see the provided $TIME expression for reference. In this case you can use e.g. time or datetime modules:

• $YYYY: exec("import time") or time.strftime("%Y")
• $YYYY: exec("from datetime import datetime") or datetime.now().strftime('%Y')
• $MM: exec("import time") or time.strftime("%m")
• $MM: exec("from datetime import datetime") or datetime.now().strftime('%m')
• ...

Both expressions resolve to 2023 and 05 as expected and the actual logic should work for all your other requirements as well. Does this help?

Cheers,
Christian

[Zijian-Wang]

Tried it, and it worked as I expected. I'm pretty new to both python and blender and thank you so much for this detailed answer! Have a great week! 🥇 😄

[p2or]

You're welcome, glad I could help.