vray standalone vs maya batch

[bradon]

I'm doing speed on renders using the maya batch with muster versus the vray standalone (eventually id like to use muster to batch the vray standalone).

I guess its to be expected but the standalone renders maybe 50% faster than the batch. I'm not sure if that's muster getting in the way.. but most likely its just the maya batch is slower. even though i use vray proxy in BOTH cases i guess the maya render has to load a bunch of extra stuff that the vrscene does not.

I guess not so much a question as a discussion of topic why that is? its a lot easier for us to use maya batch because we have scenes with multiple cameras and we use a lot of mel scripting to run commands at render time which are of course incompatable to use with standalone. looking at what actually happens when you run a maya batch it looks like internally it creates a temp vrscene file? so I would expect that the vrscene and the maya batch would be more simmilar in rendertimes?

currently we don't have a pipeline for standalone... but giving these facts, it looks like we will have to develop the tools to use standalone and get away from maya batch.

Edit.
OPP i dont think the time was 50% increase on second look my comparison is

maya batch + muster = 23 min 12 seconds
vrayStandalone = 19 min 35 seconds

so the difference was not so much but still some.

[homeless3d]

Hi

We are implementing the vray standalone - muster pipeline and it almost works but sometimes we get diferent results inside maya versus the standalone.
We don't know yet what happens, but this is inadmisible. Is not a muster problem cause we have run both commands from msdos.
Now we don't have much time, but when we have, we can post some scenes to test.

[vlado]

There is a known issue with some differences between the renders in Maya and in the standalone and we are looking into that.

Best regards,
Vlado