How do you get bloom/glare to render when you batch?

[X14Halo]

I can see the bloom/glare effect when I render locally, but when I send a sequence to render on the farm the bloom/glare does not show up. Even if I switch it to "image and render element", there is no render element created that I see.

[vlado]

This is because the lens effects are tied to the VFB UI right now, and in batch mode there is no UI. We will need to figure out a way around this. It might be doable by creating an EffectLens plugin with a Python post-translate callback, but we have to check if that actually works.

Best regards,
Vlado

[sersia]

Hi Vlado,

Is there any chance to get the lens effects with the batch render using V-Ray Standalone?
Something like this,

vray.exe -scenefile="lens.vrscene" -display=1 -autoClose=1
vray.exe -scenefile="lens01.vrscene" -display=1 -autoClose=1

Best Regards,
Sangho Jung

[tashko.zashev]

Hi Sangho,

Lens effect works fine in my tests. I'm running .Bat file with the same command lines that you have specified in CMD.
Tested with V-Ray for Maya beta.

[vlado]

I think it might depend on what file format you are writing to; can you tell me what is it?

Best regards,
Vlado

[sersia]

Hi,

Thank you for the reply, Valdo and Tashko.

Yes, it is working very well if I choose the exr format. It didn't work before because I choosed the exr (multichannel) format. Is there any plan to support the exr(multichannel) format in the future?

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Sangho Jung

[vlado]

Yes, this will be implemented.

Best regards,
Vlado

[BeneZ]

Hello,
just wanted to be sure:
The Glare and Bloom effects (render elements) are not available with batch render in Maya, only with Vray Frame Buffer, right?
Thanks