From: Dylan Penhale <dylan@(email surpressed).au>
Subject: Maya7 jobs, not reading temp mel options file?
   Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 04:23:46 -0400

I read that there where mel changes in maya7.

Any ideas?

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Dylan Penhale
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Dylan Penhale wrote:

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We are testing maya7.0.1 here and when we submit a job rush doesn't sense when the job has complete and continues as if in batch mode.

	Yes; sounds like you need this mel tweak in that submit script:
	http://seriss.com/cgi-bin/rush/newsgroup-threaded.cgi?-view+1023+1022+1023

	In Maya 7, Alias changed some of the mel variables around for mentalray.. :/

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Thanks Greg

That's got most of the mel working now. 

However we have noticed that mentalrayGlobals.outputPath no longer works
when we want to specify a custom image output file path. It appears it is
still supported in Maya7 (albeit not the shortened mentalrayGlobals.outp as
in Maya6.5), yet files are still output to the standard maya images path for
us. Have you heard of this being changed in Maya 7 as well?

defaultRenderGlobals.outputPath doesn't appear to do it.

 

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Greg Ercolano [mailto:erco@(email surpressed)]
|Sent: Friday, 12 May 2006 10:24 PM
|To: void@(email surpressed)
|Subject: Re: Maya7 jobs, not reading temp mel options file?
|
|[posted to rush.general]
|
|Dylan Penhale wrote:
|> [posted to rush.general]
|>
|>
|> We are testing maya7.0.1 here and when we submit a job rush doesn't
|> sense when the job has complete and continues as if in batch mode.
|
|	Yes; sounds like you need this mel tweak in that submit script:
|	http://seriss.com/cgi-bin/rush/newsgroup-threaded.cgi?-
|view+1023+1022+1023
|
|	In Maya 7, Alias changed some of the mel variables around for
|mentalray.. :/
|
|--
|Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed)
|Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/
|Tel: (Tel# suppressed)
|Cel: (Tel# suppressed)
|Fax: (Tel# suppressed)

Ah, just discovered the workspace from an email here on the forum. Seems to
have done the trick. We are still using mayabatch in our scripts, may be a
time to start planning a shift over to render. Looks a lot simpler.



|-----Original Message-----
|From: Greg Ercolano [mailto:erco@(email surpressed)]
|Sent: Friday, 12 May 2006 10:24 PM
|To: void@(email surpressed)
|Subject: Re: Maya7 jobs, not reading temp mel options file?
|
|[posted to rush.general]
|
|Dylan Penhale wrote:
|> [posted to rush.general]
|>
|>
|> We are testing maya7.0.1 here and when we submit a job rush doesn't
|> sense when the job has complete and continues as if in batch mode.
|
|	Yes; sounds like you need this mel tweak in that submit script:
|	http://seriss.com/cgi-bin/rush/newsgroup-threaded.cgi?-
|view+1023+1022+1023
|
|	In Maya 7, Alias changed some of the mel variables around for
|mentalray.. :/
|
|--
|Greg Ercolano, erco@(email surpressed)
|Rush Render Queue, http://seriss.com/rush/
|Tel: (Tel# suppressed)
|Cel: (Tel# suppressed)
|Fax: (Tel# suppressed)

Dylan Penhale wrote:

[posted to rush.general]

Ah, just discovered the workspace from an email here on the forum. Seems to
have done the trick. We are still using mayabatch in our scripts, may be a
time to start planning a shift over to render. Looks a lot simpler.

	Yes, Maya's "Render -r [sw|mr|mi|rman..]" syntax is a lot easier to deal with.

	It was introduced in Maya 6.x, which is why there's a separate submit script
	called 'submit-maya6' which uses that newer syntax.

	In the next release, that will become the new 'submit-maya' script, and the
	current submit-maya which uses the 'maya -batch' and MEL snippets will probably
	be renamed to 'submit-maya-old'.


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