Vray Standalone command

[bradon]

Im trying to use make a vrscene from maya and render it with the standalone command prompt. everything is good so far i can make the vrscene file and launch the command render and i see the vfb opens and the image is rendering.

however i look at the options for output filename and I'm confused how to specify the save file output.

imgFile="fileName"

if i dont specify the filename i guess it renders to some temp memory directory and gets deleted then?

i try to just name some file "WhereMyFile." but it doesn't seem to save the file anywhere on my hard drive that i can find?

so I have a somewhat complicated naming structure that we use in maya to sort our renders can this be mimicked in the vray standalone or something similar.

so ideally we use
%s/%c/%l

so scene file / camera / render layer.

so for my vray scene i might have to set this up manually im guessing>? but how to?

[vladimir.nedev]

If you don't specify -imgFile on the command line, the image will be written in the same place as if rendering directly through Maya. The path and filename are written as part of the vrscene file. If you specify -imgFile, then you can specify an absolute path (i.e. drive, directory, filename) or a relative path. If you specify a relative path, the path is relative to the directory where the vrscene file is located. So if you specify only a file name for -imgFile, it will be written in the same directory as the vrscene file you're rendering.

Greetings,
Vladimir Nedev

[bradon]

ok, thats what i assumed would be the way it would work however thats not the behavior im experiencing.. ill try again, maybe i messed something up on my end.