Export .vrscene from Maya via MEL or Python?

[Fredrik Averpil]

Is it possible to export the .vrscene file using a certain export command?

Just like you're able to return the revision build number with MEL code vray build or Python code maya.mel('vray build'), I'm thinking something along the lines of:

vray export "c:/export/hello.vrscene'

By the way, I keep asking a lot of these questions regarding what vray commands there are... isn't there a API/dictionary somewhere?

[ivaylo.ivanov]

I don't think a special command is needed. You can make a 3 line script to turn off your rendering, turn on vrscene export and render (with vrend).

[Fredrik Averpil]

Yeah that's what I'm doing at the moment. Just wanted to check if this was the preferred method.

By the way, I had to google up 'vrend'. Is there some kind of documentation somewhere which explains which arguments vrend might have?

Thanks.

[ivaylo.ivanov]

It's probably better since such command will not do something that you can't even in more obvious way. We will make a note to add documentation for vrend. Here is another thread how to export vrscene without starting Maya in GUI mode

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...ighlight=vrend