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mikefeil
08-24-2003, 02:31 PM
is there any plugin's that I can load up all of my scenes files and just click a button and they all render (in accordence with the render globals for each scene)

anyway..a plugin like this would be a great help
j00ey
08-24-2003, 04:55 PM
i was reading in the documentation that there should be in the render menu some sort of dispatcher, but at least in my copy there is no such option. i had to work around at the time as i didn't have chance to investigate but i shall do so when i get chance.

does anyone else know about this phantom feature? there must be some way of doing it without plugins. 3dsmax has had such a queue controller for ages.

j00ey
mikefeil
08-25-2003, 01:11 AM
yep cause rendering 100+ scenes isnt fun manually
DeathBrain
08-25-2003, 02:13 AM
I use this tools (http://www.renderpal.com/) from renderpal.com for my render queue, it works fine here :)
dann_stubbs
08-25-2003, 02:01 PM
Originally posted by j00ey
i was reading in the documentation that there should be in the render menu some sort of dispatcher, but at least in my copy there is no such option. i had to work around at the time as i didn't have chance to investigate but i shall do so when i get chance.

does anyone else know about this phantom feature? there must be some way of doing it without plugins. 3dsmax has had such a queue controller for ages.

j00ey

dispatcher is irix only. it is a shame that they have not ported the render manager, but there are a good half dozen and a bunch of free ones out there for maya if you look.

butterfly netrender
smedge
muster
spider

etc... a freeware one is available on highend3d.com it is called maya net render

dann
Doogie
08-25-2003, 05:30 PM
If you're in windows, write a .bat file. That way you can render from the command line too.

A bat file is just a text file with DOS commands in it. So you can use the command line renderer to render your scenes one after another. like...
REM filename: MultiRender.bat
Render myscene1.ma
Render myscene2.ma
Render myscene3.ma
echo I'm done rendering!
pause
REM is a comment
echo prints to the screen
pause waits for a key to be pressed (so it doesnt close after it finishes)

those are some basics.

my 2 cents.
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