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# 1 20-04-2004 , 11:35 PM
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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


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# 2 21-04-2004 , 08:39 AM
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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?


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# 3 21-04-2004 , 05:14 PM
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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 user added image

# 4 24-04-2004 , 08:29 PM
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hm.. looks like nobody knows

# 5 22-05-2004 , 02:23 PM
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I am having the same exact problem, so if you find the solution, plz send me a PM and I will do the same!

# 6 22-05-2004 , 07:30 PM
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Post your file and I'll take a look if you want.


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# 7 22-05-2004 , 07:40 PM
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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...

# 8 22-05-2004 , 10:19 PM
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You can have my exemple file here:

https://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!

# 9 22-05-2004 , 10:40 PM
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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.


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# 10 22-05-2004 , 10:49 PM
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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!

# 11 22-05-2004 , 10:58 PM
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Not sure....im on a pc and havent really done much cmnd line rendering.


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# 12 22-05-2004 , 10:59 PM
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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.

# 13 22-05-2004 , 11:14 PM
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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...

# 14 22-05-2004 , 11:18 PM
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Pretty weird. Glad you got it solved.


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# 15 26-02-2005 , 09:36 PM
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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.

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