[Maya 2009] Rendering + Melscript
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Hello...
I am having some problem to set an output directory for my rendering settings...
I played with the "defaultRenderGlobals" node but nothing here...
I also checked the documentation and nothing to set a directory in the "render" or "Mayatomr" commands...
I just want to do a render from a camera and then to drop the render in a wanted directory...
Both Maya software or Mentalray, I do not mind, I take the first it works
Thank you for your help T_T...
I am having some problem to set an output directory for my rendering settings...
I played with the "defaultRenderGlobals" node but nothing here...
I also checked the documentation and nothing to set a directory in the "render" or "Mayatomr" commands...
I just want to do a render from a camera and then to drop the render in a wanted directory...
Both Maya software or Mentalray, I do not mind, I take the first it works
Thank you for your help T_T...
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I've had the same issues, what I ended up doing was just letting it output the render to the current project's default folder (usually /images/ if I remember right), then using the sys command to copy the image to the correct location afterward.
Seems to work fine, although it feels like a massive hack not being able to specify an output location for a single render. It always seems to want to use the Project settings and you can't override that.
You'd probably have to make your script Set the current Project to the correct location, then set the Images project folder to the appropriate subdirectory (or maybe "" if you want the image in the root folder). I haven't tried that yet, though.
Yes I was thinking about the system command but... raaaaa Mayaaa.....
1. If you're rendering in Windows, you can initiate a batch render via .bat files, which also happen to allow you to choose where to output files to. The only limitation being that while you can choose where to output images to, if you're using render layers, rendered images will be placed in a folder named after the render layer in that output folder location. For example if you wanted to render to folder C:/myRenderFolder/images/ and were rendering a file with a render layer called layer_01, images that resulted from rendering that layer would end up in C:/myRenderFolder/images/layer_01/
Here are some links to get started:
Tutorial on how to batch render using .bat files
List of Common Maya Render Flags
A List of More Specific Flags
How to stop a command line render*
*Note: Where the instructions refer to Render.exe, more often than not it will be mayabatch.exe instead
2. If you're content to place images in whatever project folder you're currently using: link
3. When editing your project, instead of putting in a relative path for images, type in an absolute path, ie. C : \aFolderName\example\etc\
No spaces between the C the : and the \ though, I only put those in because otherwise it would look like an emoticon...
Hope this helps. I'm not completely sure of what the problem is though, is there a particular instance where you would want images from a render to not be in a folder in the project directory you've setup?
Thanks for the links!