Hi! I'm here.

I will add this feature!

Ok, feature is now in Oscurart Tools! If you have doubts I'm in twitter @oscurart

there was somebody working on such a thing.. at least there was a discussion over on devtalk about it, dunno if it went anywhere but you could contact the person who was going to add the feature and see what the status is:

devtalk.blender.org/t/filepath-template-proposal/11926/

incidentally, this proposal is a duplicate of at least one other proposal (probably more):

blender.community/c/rightclickselect/Slfbbc/

I think right now the only one available is just using # in an output file name to indicate frame digits position.

We need more.

File Paths templates were added in Blender 4.5 LTS and more should come in the future.

Best one I've found. Works with compositing nodes as well github.com/jeinselen/VF-BlenderAutosaveRender

Having this implemented would save a lot of time, especially when outputting multuple view layers, having them named according to the layer and organized into their own folders automativally is a massive time saver and is an industry standard practice at this point (Unreal Engine does this really well).

actually I took an old script, with some obsolete piece of code in it from this page github.com/patrickhill/blender-datestamper and actualized here the code "#Simplified BSD License

#Copyright (c) 2012, Florian Meyer #tstscr@web.de #All rights reserved.

#Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without #modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

#1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this

list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

#2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,

this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation

and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

#THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND #ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED #WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE #DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR #ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES #(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; #LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND #ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT #(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS #SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. #################################################################

Plugin extended and modified by Patrick Hill

Date: 2016-03-12 14.46.01

website: HelloHill.com

email: patrickrhill@gmail.com

#################################################################

Plugin extended and modified by Francesco Mazzoni

Date: 2020-13-10

website: studioeffe3d.com

email: studioeffe3d@gmail.com

#now it's working on Blender2.9 -some functions have been abandoned

bl_info = { "name": "Auto Save Render with Datestamp", "author": "tstscr", "version": (1, 0), "blender": (2, 63, 0), "location": "Rendertab -> Render Panel", "description": "Automatically save the image after rendering", "warning": "", "wiki_url": " wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Render/Auto_Save ", "tracker_url": " projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php ", "category": "Render"} ########################################################################### import bpy from bpy.props import BoolProperty, EnumProperty from bpy.app.handlers import persistent from os.path import dirname, exists, join from bpy.path import basename from os import mkdir, listdir from re import findall import time import re

datestamp = time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d") + " " + time.strftime("%H.%M.%S")

@persistent def auto_save_render(scene):

if not scene.save_after_render or not bpy.data.filepath:
    return
rndr = scene.render
original_format = rndr.image_settings.file_format

format = rndr.image_settings.file_format
if format == 'OPEN_EXR_MULTILAYER': extension = '.exr'
if format == 'JPEG': extension = '.jpg'
if format == 'PNG': extension = '.png'

blendname = basename(bpy.data.filepath).rpartition('.')[0]
filepath = dirname(bpy.data.filepath) + '/exports'

print (datestamp)

if not exists(filepath):
    mkdir(filepath)

if scene.auto_save_subfolders:
    filepath = join(filepath, blendname)
    if not exists(filepath):
        mkdir(filepath)

#imagefiles starting with the blendname
files = [f for f in listdir(filepath) \
        if f.startswith(blendname) \
        and f.lower().endswith(('.png', '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.exr'))]

highest = 0
if files:
    for f in files:
        #find last numbers in the filename after the blendname
        suffix = findall('\d+', f.split(blendname)[-1])
        if suffix:
            if int(suffix[-1]) > highest:
                highest = int(suffix[-1])

#save_name = join(filepath, blendname) + '-' + datestamp + extension
save_name = filepath + "/" + datestamp + "-composite" + extension

image = bpy.data.images['Render Result']
if not image:
    print('Auto Save: Render Result not found. Image not saved')
    return

print('Auto_Save:', save_name)
image.save_render(save_name, scene=None)

rndr.image_settings.file_format = original_format