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Soulcialism

02-20-2004, 12:18 AM

Hey everyone,
Trying to render out a quick scene here, it's 180 frames, using maya's software renderer. I have it set to .tif with alpha channels so it can be used in aftereffects for compositing, but the batch render option is unavailable (render > batch render). Is there a good reason as to why it wouldn't be available? I have the camera selected as 'renderable,' and I've tried switching formats from tif to targa to avi, none of them showing any difference. i have the frames set from start at 1 to end at 180, by frame 1.0, frame padding 3, camera set to my camera1, and i have played with the quality going from preview up to production thinking maybe that had something to do with it, but none of these have produced a batch render option in my render menu, it's just not there. All I see in the menu is redo previous render, render region, render options (for orthographic views) and snapshot options.

Playblast works, but batch render doesn't (I have no idea if those are related to each other at all).

I'm on kind of a tight deadline here so if anyone can provide any help, the sooner the better, and I appreciate it very much.

sethmisek

02-20-2004, 06:48 AM

try right clicking on the scene in explorer and hitting render.

jadamburke

02-20-2004, 09:27 AM

your looking at the wrong Render menu. You're looking at the Render Menu in the Render View window. The Batch Renderer is found under the main maya menu. You have to switch to "Rendering" found in the upper right corner or press F5 to see the Render menu item.

Soulcialism

02-20-2004, 01:53 PM

jadamburke: thanks for your help, that was the problem. i just moved up to 5.0 and i could have sworn batch render was in the render view menu in 4.0, was it? or have i gone totally batty?

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