Batch Render Problem
 

Hi there,

Im a bit new to Maya , im trying to render a small animation I did, when I do the batch Render and go to the script editor, all it says is rendering with maya software.. and nothing happens, it just stays there, I checked the render global settings, total frames are 100, what could be the problem, im using maya 5,

Adeel

how long did you leave it for? It may just be taking a while. Did you set your start and end frames? Did you set the thing to name.frame.ext so that it doesnt just do a single frame?

Hello

I waited for about 20 minutes, and yea i did set the start frames and end frames, did set the name.frame.ext too, but all it does is stays there and no progress :(

hm.. looks like nobody knows

I am having the same exact problem, so if you find the solution, plz send me a PM and I will do the same!

Post your file and I'll take a look if you want.

how can i post the file? and is there any other way to render the animation other than batch rendering, also could it be a problem with the software...

You can have my exemple file here:

http://www.soluciel.info/cantBatchRenderThis.mb

I dont know if it could be the problem, but when I check the "use all availlable processor" box, it says that I have 0 processor on my machine which is obviously false...

I am running Maya on a Mac powerbook 1Ghz and everything but this has worked fine so far...

Thank you very much!

I would say that that would definitely be a problem. Did you try unchecking it and just typing the amount of processors you have? I opened up the file here and it batch renders fine.

arg... thats what I thought... And yes, I tried various combo of check/uncheck put a number, etc...
And it never works... Do you know how I can batch render this from command line on a Mac?

Thanks for the test btw!

Not sure....im on a pc and havent really done much cmnd line rendering.

Humm... Seems like if I dont check the box, it will stay to 1 availlable processor. But it still only want to render only one frame :-S
I have looked around and found no faq about this.

I found the solution!!! I dont know why but it worked!
I simply clicked on the <maya batch renderer> icon in the maya folder while maya was opened and it started to process my project!

Thanks for the try Nitro...

Pretty weird. Glad you got it solved.

yes, i have been having that exact same problem, i try to batch render, it says, Percentage of rendering done: 0 (starting), then does nothing, individual frames render in only a few mins, so i have no idea why an image sequence would have this much trouble, any help would be greatly appreciated.