Vray standalone rendering multiple vrscenes

[olheiros]

Hi There.
i have a scene in Maya wich i exported to .vrscene with a .vrscene for each frame.
now i wanted to render the sequence in vray standalone. Is there a way to automatically render the sequence in the command line?
i tried with " -frame = 1,110 " on the options for frame 1 to 110 but it only renders one frame.

its getting really painfull to write every single render command.

cheers
Ricardo

[vlado]

If you have exported separate .vrscene files for each frame, then you'll need to write a simple shell script (or batch file on Windows) to cycle through the files and render them out.

The format for the -frames option would be -frames=1-110 (note that it's "frames" and not "frame"), but this will only work if you exported the entire animation in a single .vrscene file.

Best regards,
Vlado

[olheiros]

Thanks Vlado. i'm on Mac. going to sort out some incremental shell script to make it work then . thanks

[olheiros]

Im not very confortable w shell so i did it with Python. In case someone needs it here goes

in Terminal type:
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python
import os
for i in range(1,110):
os.system("/Applications/Autodesk/maya2012/Maya.app/Contents/vray/bin/vray -sceneFile='path_to_file_%04d.vrscene'" %i)


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worked like a charm

[olheiros]

Im not very confortable w shell so i did it with Python. In case someone needs it here goes

in Terminal type:
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python
import os
for i in range(1,110):
[tab here]os.system("/Applications/Autodesk/maya2012/Maya.app/Contents/vray/bin/vray -sceneFile='path_to_file_%04d.vrscene'" %i)


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worked like a charm

[duckie]

Is there a particular reason you wrote out a vrscene per frame? I've successfully used a single vrscene running on several machines just using the -frames='' command.

On a related subject - Vlado, can you tell me what the syntax for frame step is? On ones it's easy -frames=1-100 but to run this on 2's is it -frames=1-100-2?

[vlado]

On a related subject - Vlado, can you tell me what the syntax for frame step is? On ones it's easy -frames=1-100 but to run this on 2's is it -frames=1-100-2?

-frames=1-100,2

Best regards,
Vlado

[hellobard]

hey,
i'm trying to batch a couple of vrscenes with a simple DOS .bat file by setting the following up:

vray.exe -sceneFile="X:\10 Projects\Kash_og_Zook\60_3D\Maya\scenes\vrscenes\R eflectionSign.vrscene" -frames=20-20,1

vray.exe -sceneFile="X:\10 Projects\Kash_og_Zook\60_3D\Maya\scenes\vrscenes\A lley.vrscene" frames=20-20,1

Now, the first job runs just fine, but when it finishes it never continues onto the next job. Should I be adding the -AutoClose=1 option to get this working or?

[t.petrov]

You have two options here:
1. Use -display=0 - doesn't show a VFB
2. Use -autoClose=1 - closes the VFB at the end of the render

/Teodor

[hellobard]

excellent, thanks Teodor