Batch Rendering doesn't work

[saved_sinner]

Hi, I got a little problem with batch rendering in Maya 7.

I followed all the instructions in the manual but the problem is that maya starts the batch rendering and after a few second it stops by telling me the rendering is completed even though I ment to render about 240 frames. And the result of all this is nothing. When I want to watch the batch render maya tells me there is no image to look at.

I'm desperate, help me!

[Millies45]

Hey there,

Are you batch rendering with maya software or mental ray?

Mills

[saved_sinner]

Hi, first of all I have to say that I'm a beginner in 3D so I already want to apologize for a few strange questions that may be asked by myself, so sorry for that.

I want to render with mental ray. The actual problem is that I already rendered a full scene during a other project and there it worked. I already thought that it could be that this time I#m using more refraction or reflection stuff, but when I render the current frame it works. Only if I want to start the batchrendering it gives me the message: // Result: Rendering Completed. See Console for more information. //
But it renders me a .mb file and not even the .tif which I've chosen in the render settings.
Actually I just read this: // Warning: The renderer, mentalRay, used by this scene, is not currently available. The Maya Software renderer will be used instead. //
So why am I still able to render the current frame with mental ray?

I feel like an idiot, please help me.

[Millies45]

Heya,

Sounds to me that your maya has gone abit buggy...try deleting your maya folder in your my documents folder so that it resets your settings to the default settings/preferences and then just re-load mental ray in the plugin manager...which can be found in...window>settings and preferences>Plug-in Manager. the name of the mental ray plugin is called....mayatomr.mll. Just tick the load and auto load box and try render again. That might help...

mills

[Wookie]

Hy-.its different sometimes mental ray some times software..first of all i prepare the scene included the settings...i will take a look to the cam..and i start batching....and then my console tell my maya.batch crashed...everytime..i dont know the problem..

[jidoman]

waas happen to me sometimes but in my case was scene problem,
i dont know was model or texture.
in other projects is going good

[ssgraphic]

I think you do not make a new project where you see the render files.
first make file\project\new\
render settings : frame\animation\name_#.ext
render\batch render\apply

ss

[ssgraphic]

Originally Posted by saved_sinner

Hi, I got a little problem with batch rendering in Maya 7.

I followed all the instructions in the manual but the problem is that maya starts the batch rendering and after a few second it stops by telling me the rendering is completed even though I ment to render about 240 frames. And the result of all this is nothing. When I want to watch the batch render maya tells me there is no image to look at.

I'm desperate, help me!

first you make project, then apply batch render. You will find your batch render should be start