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CoreyJAvitar
02-13-2006, 09:59 PM
Hi all, sorry about the elementary question, but when I try to perform a batch render with mental ray, I get black images. They render out and all, it's just that they render really fast and contain nothing but black.
grrr.
If someone has a magic solution, please answer.
well, actually any answer at all would be appreciated.
Thanks
Murphy

*Edit* Ok, the same thing happens with the maya software renderer.
Just black images!
arg!
frothlord
02-14-2006, 11:44 AM
Do you have the correct camera set? Are there lights in your scene?
doms
02-14-2006, 01:24 PM
Apparently batch rendering isn't supported in MR unless you have a standalone version, pretty crap for a highend renderer but there you go. You can get some batch functions to work for stills but i haven't had any luck with sequences when i'm queing multiple jobs up.
There probably is some way around this but i mainly do stills so i havenlt bothered to find out. G'luck
meagane
02-14-2006, 07:08 PM
you also should also check if your objects and lights are correctly linked to the lightLinker node..
cgtriguy
02-14-2006, 07:40 PM
Apparently batch rendering isn't supported in MR unless you have a standalone version, pretty crap for a highend renderer but there you go. You can get some batch functions to work for stills but i haven't had any luck with sequences when i'm queing multiple jobs up.
There probably is some way around this but i mainly do stills so i havenlt bothered to find out. G'luck


This is simply not true. Batch rendering is fully supported in MR for Maya on all platforms. As is satellite rendering. You can start a render from the Maya batch render command, from the command line or from a 3rd party render manager.

If you are rendering black images I would suspect you are missing a light in your scene. Try rendering a scene with MR not using the default lights.
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