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Richard7666

07-13-2010, 06:39 AM

As I don't exactly have a powerful machine, rendering something that can potentially take several hours is a real pain as I often don't even know if it's working (mental ray has a horrible habit of just not starting a render for some reason for me but that's a separate issue)

Basically I want to set it to, say, 1% increments so it reports render progress more often instead of having to wait til it hits 5% so I know if it's working.

m-u-r-p-h-y

07-13-2010, 07:56 AM

It is better for you to run the render from command line instead using batch render in Maya GUI.

command line increment is something like 0.1% so it should be quite nice for you. You have also options to increase verbosity level easily.

m-u-r-p-h-y

07-13-2010, 07:58 AM

other important thing to mention is you will make more RAM available to your render running it from command line instead from GUI.

you can save some 300-400MB and MR will appreciate it for sure ;)

Richard7666

07-13-2010, 10:28 AM

Thanks for the suggestion, I'd never even considered it!

This tutorial looks good as I'm rather inexperienced with doing ANYTHING from the command prompt. http://www.*******.com/tutorials/command_line/ (that's 'three-dee total' but spelt '3d' not 'three-dee', sorry but I can't link directly)

I'll see how I go :)

cgbeige

07-13-2010, 06:58 PM

Richard - I thought you were on a Mac. No? Anyway, I posted a thing for OS X users who want to get up and running with command line renders here:

http://polygonspixelsandpaint.tumblr.com/post/701899285/mac-os-x-maya-and-other-3d-app-users-how-to-set-up

Richard7666

07-14-2010, 11:14 AM

Nope, Windows user here. Your photoshop vid in the other thread I could follow along as it's all set up basically the same, was just the rapid mouse movements that were catching me out :)

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