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ruddiger52

04-27-2009, 07:47 PM

Recently I had my farm converted to mental ray stand alone. My problem is that now when I submit a Maya file for rendering through rush render, the conversion from Maya file to MR file takes hours. If I export the scene myself to an mi file locally, it takes only a few minutes. If anyone has any ideas why MR stand alone is taking so long to convert my files please let me know.

Thanks

chuckie7413

04-27-2009, 08:38 PM

Hi Don,

Im pretty sure it would not be MR Standalone that is doing the conversion as I don't believe it has the executable to convert a maya file to .mi.

I am unsure how rush render works. We do not have any render distribution software installed at work, just do it all manually with a few batch files.

Would be interested to here your setup tho and if you find a solution to your problem.

Best,

Rich