How to set the render-output using arbitrary values?

While Blender has no build-in support for this feature. You can do this using Python:

From Within Blender

Add a script into your file, call it render_path.py (for example).

• Press Run Script (only need to do once)
• Enable the Register option in the text editor (so it runs automatically).

Here is a sample script.

import bpy def render_filepath_set(scene): scene.render.filepath = '{file}_{scene}_{camera}_####'.format( file=bpy.data.filepath.rpartition('.')[0], scene=scene.name, camera=scene.camera.name, ) bpy.app.handlers.render_init.append(render_filepath_set) 

From the Command-Line

A similar method can be used, by running a script from the command line, first create a file.

render_path.py

import bpy scene = bpy.context.scene scene.render.filepath = '{file}_{scene}_{camera}_####'.format( file=bpy.data.filepath.rpartition('.')[0], scene=scene.name, camera=scene.camera.name, ) 

And run it with:

blender --background /d/untitled.blend --python render_path.py --render-anim 

Or, you can avoid using a Python file and simply pass in the script on the command line (using --python-expr).

blender --background /d/untitled.blend --python-expr "import bpy; scene = bpy.context.scene; scene.render.filepath = '{file}_{scene}_{camera}_####'.format(file=bpy.data.filepath.rpartition('.')[0], scene=scene.name, camera=scene.camera.name)" 

This isn't practical to manually type in of course, but can be used when running Blender as an automated task (shell script / bat file... etc).