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maya render damnit!

I really don’t enjoy setting renders in Maya, and I definitely don’t enjoy manually setting up command line renders, but it is definitely the way to go when it comes to rendering animation.

The purpose of these little apps is to make that a drag and drop process:

mayarender

MayaRender – Drag any Maya .ma or .mb onto this droplet to automatically start a command line render in terminal. (Asks to choose Renderer and add any additional Render Flags, universal version will ask which Maya version you would like to use)

Maya SW, MentalRay, and RenderMan, and V-Ray are setup to automatically startup up renders as soon as a file has been dragged onto them, avoiding having to put in any options. (The renderer will automatically use whatever you have setup within your Render Globals in your scene)


Download: MayaRender (5.4MB .dmg)
-added 2008 and 2010 versions plus V-Ray as another render option. Also, a universal version that allows you to choose your Maya version (8.5 through 2010)

Enjoy! If there are any issues feel free to contact me or leave comments here.

6 Responses

  1. sisley says:

    i love u

  2. renech says:

    Hello, i think is very smart your apps but in my macbookpro tell my that:

    Starting “/Applications/Autodesk/maya2010/Maya.app/Contents/bin/maya”
    Error: could not find installed copy of Maya. Please install maya
    or set MAYA_LOCATION environment variable to point to location
    // Maya exited with status 1

    i don´t know what is the solve if you could me help. I would appreciate

  3. Colin says:

    I’m getting the same problem as renech. Any fix? The app sounds fantastic and I’d really like to use it.
    Thanks.

  4. Andrew says:

    I am looking into at the moment. I am actually unable to render from the command line on Maya 2010 going the manual route as well.

    Are you guys able to render from the command line with Maya 2010 at all at the moment?

  5. riocar24 says:

    Yeah, also getting the same issue as colin and renech… can´t do it manually either, i start getting messages that say that my filename is incorrect… i hope you can get it to work, this app would be great to use
    good luck

  6. riocar24 says:

    just realized i had an extra letter, on the filename (duh), and now it renders just fine (manually)

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