From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)> Subject: [Q+A] Maya + Vray Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:49:38 -0500 |
Msg# 1922 View Complete Thread (2 articles) | All Threads Last Next |
> We'd like to render with Vray for Maya. > > But our submit-maya script doesn't have a 'vray' option > in the submit form for "Renderer".. what should we do to render with Vray? Just set the "Renderer:" field to "default" in the submit form, and it will use the renderer the scene file was set to use. So if the scene was set to use vray, that's what Maya will use to render the scene if the job was submitted with "Renderer: default". That goes for just about all the Maya plugin renderers. That's all you should need. [NOTE: Some releases of the maya vray plugin don't support this, in which case use the below] If, however, you want to be able to /force/ Maya renders to use vray even if the scene isn't set up to use it, and you have a submit-maya script that doesn't have 'vray' in the Renderer: pulldown menu, it's easy to add it; just find this (long) line in the submit-maya script: Renderer: "default,maya(sw),mentalray(mr),mentalray-standalone(mi),mi-gen(mi),hardware(hw),vector(vr),renderman(rman),ribgen(rib),3Delight(3delight),maxwell(maxwell)" ? ..and add ",vray(vray)" to the end of this line before the closing quote. For example: BEFORE: Renderer: "default,maya(sw),mentalray(mr)......,3Delight(3delight),maxwell(maxwell)" ? AFTER: Renderer: "default,maya(sw),mentalray(mr)......,3Delight(3delight),maxwell(maxwell),vray(vray)" ? ^^^^^^^^^^^ ..that way 'vray' will be in the Renderer: pulldown so you can select it to force the render to run with vray. But it's much easier to just leave the submit form set to "default". |
From: Greg Ercolano <erco@(email surpressed)> Subject: Re: [Q+A] Maya + Vray Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:23:53 -0400 |
Msg# 1933 View Complete Thread (2 articles) | All Threads Last Next |
Greg Ercolano wrote: >> We'd like to render with Vray for Maya. >> >> But our submit-maya script doesn't have a 'vray' option >> in the submit form for "Renderer".. what should we do to render with Vray? > > [..]it's easy to add it; just find this (long) line in the submit-maya script: > > Renderer: "default,maya(sw),mentalray(mr),mentalray-standalone(mi),mi-gen(mi),hardware(hw),vector(vr),renderman(rman),ribgen(rib),3Delight(3delight),maxwell(maxwell)" ? > > ..and add ",vray(vray)" to the end of this line before the closing quote. > For example: > > BEFORE: Renderer: "default,maya(sw),mentalray(mr)......,3Delight(3delight),maxwell(maxwell)" ? > AFTER: Renderer: "default,maya(sw),mentalray(mr)......,3Delight(3delight),maxwell(maxwell),vray(vray)" ? > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > ..that way 'vray' will be in the Renderer: pulldown so you can select it > to force the render to run with vray. Just a followup -- I should add that this has also been brought up on the Chaos Group's vray forum list here: http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?49195-Rush-render-queue-Vray-duplicate-frames-jobs-loops&p=425308#post425308 I think you need to be a member to read that article, but it's basically the same as the above; some users included a few details on the issues they were having. Be sure, of course, to enable the vray plugin in the maya plugin manager, and you may need to set the 'vray' plugin to 'autostart' (this from someone who was evaling the vray plugin, and was initially having trouble with the vray plugin using vray standalone licenses) |