Help! >> Batch Renders are making two cycles of the same animation.

[Andrei2k]

Here's your problem.......you must have added a camera so now you have multiple renderable cameras that both output images.....you should select the came "output" or "box" whichever you don't want and hit ctrl+A to bring up the attribute editor of that camera and in the output section uncheck the box that says renderable. for future reference now in render globals in the list of the cameras to render you should no longer see (renderable) by more than one camera which is how you know iff youll output more that one camera in one batch render. any time you see (renderable) along side any camera names it means its set to renderable and all of those cameras will render


only time this is useful is when you want to render different cameras of the same scene to put them together later in premiere or something. this way you can "queue" more than one job so when you go to sleep in the morning you wont have to hit render on another camera and hopefully both are done depending on what youre doing.

Hope this helps.

Andrei

[h0tice]

one workaround that i do to check which camera is renderable or not:

in the commandLine type "select defaultRenderGlobals;" without the quote and hit enter.

then ctrl+a for the attributeEditor.

you can see now if you have two or more renderable cameras.

hope this helps

[projectironwill]

I thank you for your advice, however, the ACTION camera should be the only one renderable, but then again I made a shelf button that creates a new perps camera and renames that "persp1" to "ACTION1", makes it renderable, and disables the render of the orginal persp camera. But I will go and check both the MEL button as well as each camera to see if they are checked renderable.

I usally tell it to read from the ACTION camera from the drop down menu, and the other cameras are face a different direction, so when the render completes, it is indeed the same camera set-up that I choose, but just doubled up.

I'll check the orginal persp camera and see if it is lined up with the ACTION1 camera.

Thanks

[projectironwill]

What happen was that when I used my homemade MEL shelf button to create a new camera named ACTION1, it would place it on the orgin of the scene, which sometimes was inside a model. So I edit it to create a persp camera instead and name it, but in this case, it place the new persp1 AKA ACTION1 right over the orginal persp camera which is renderable by default. I checked the attribute for that camera and sure enough, it was checked to render, so Maya rendered the persp camera first, then the ACTION1 camera that I told it to render from the second time through. I've since then updated my MEL to set the persp camera attr not to render, and place it at the top of my list!

Thanks for your tips!

[projectironwill]

I decided to post the button that I homebrewed here for you all to try out. Below is that button as well as an ACTION2 Button to go beside it. However, I figure I better put in the right section of the site. Please follow the link below

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89534

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