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dweinin

02-20-2007, 03:48 AM

I posted this in the Rendering forum. I haven't gotten much of a response so I thought I might post it here.

I'm looking for some kind of MEL or DOS command that will let me render multiple scenes, one right after the other. I have 8 scenes that I need to render. The globals are all set. I was hoping to just type in something in the DOS prompt and have maya batch renderer set them all up automatically and render all the scenes.

I've tired creating a bot file and placing it in the scene folder. I'm not sure I set it up correctly.
The file just says
render scene1.ma
render scene2.ma
... and so on up to
render scene8.ma
I work my way to the propper directory from the DOS prompt and try to execute a render
render renderme.bot and I just get an error.

dr.rastaman

02-20-2007, 07:19 AM

You can create a batchfile to do this. Just use notepad or any other text-editor .
Type in:

render -s 1 -e 150 yourScene1.ma (to render from frame 1 to frame 150)
render -s 1 -e 150 yourScene2.ma
...

Then simply save the textfile with extension .bat and doubleclick it.

dweinin

02-20-2007, 04:58 PM

Excellent. Thanks DR. Rastaman!

Skywalkerplanet

08-15-2007, 09:48 PM

Is this the complete mel script? Because I am not savvy with these things but every render queue program has many bugs, so I need to use this method if possible

I wonder, how does the .bat file locate the .ma files? If I type in:

render -s 1 -e 150 Happy.ma
render -s 1 -e 150 Sad.ma

will it automatically locate the "Happy" and "Sad" files? Will it also use the settings I have in the render settings window once it does or do I need to add flags for MR and such? Is this the complete script?

Thanks
Justin

dweinin

08-15-2007, 10:01 PM

Hey Justin-

It's been a long time since I needed to do this. I've since switched to a MAC and am having difficulty remembering this process.

I remember it working though.

I think what you need to do is what Dr. Rastman said. Create a text file with your scene names and use the extension .bat. Put that text file in with your scene files double click it and I think it will simply find them.

I can't really remember though. You may want to email Dr. Rastaman direct. He was a good help when I was going through this a while back.

-Dweinin.

Cartesius

08-16-2007, 08:00 AM

This script (usually) works for me:

For software: render -r sw "full\path\to\your\scenefile.mb"
For mentalray: render -r mr "full\path\to\your\scenefile.mb"

So if I want to render a scene called overLord.mb using mentalray it would look something like this:

render -r mr "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\maya\projects\Fantasy\scenes\overLord.mb"

/Anders

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