rendering maya fluids + pre render export

[R_Cyph]

Hey,

I'm trying to render a cached maya fluid container. I have the pheonix demo installed with vray for maya 2.2 and maya 2012. Even though the fluid is cached vray does a pre render export, locally and on the farm, and runs through the timeline when rendering any given frame. How do I turn this off? I don't have use camera path or fly through mode on for light cache or irradiance map. Please help.

[vlado]

In the nightly builds and the latest stable builds there is an environment variable MAYA_DISABLE_BATCH_RUNUP which you can set to 1 to prevent the pre-render export, but if you are using the official build, it's not there.

Best regards,
Vlado

[R_Cyph]

There is no way to avoid this with vray 2.2?

[vlado]

It might work to modify one of the Maya scripts related to batch rendering - dynRunupForBatchRender() to do essentially nothing, as described here: http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...dynRunupFor%2A

That post was for hair though; I don't know if it will work for fluids.

Best regards,
Vlado