Maya Tools

Maya Tools for Maya 2011 with mayapy.

_{This could very well work with 2010 but is untested as of yet.}

These scripts are to be used with the mayapy executable that comes with Maya 2011.  

Requirements :

1. vrayUtils.py in your PYTHONPATH so it can be imported properly
2. pyMel - https://code.google.com/p/pymel/ (Maya 2011 comes with this pre-installed)

What does this stuff do?

Usage of renderMayaVray.py:

mayapy renderMayaVray.py --scene file.mb --startframe 1 --endframe 100 --camera renderCamShape --layer renderLayer --output path/to/renderdir

Please note : the camera name is the shape node.

The layer is optional at this point.  It will render the default render layer without a specified layer.

However, if there is already more than the usual masterLayer it will render the first layer it finds versus the masterLayer.  Suggestion is to create a base render layer and create other render layers from that base.

It will name the resulting EXR the same name as the scene.  EG. my_car.mb becomes my_car.0001.exr.

If you have a layer called "wheels" it will name the render my_car_wheels.0001.exr

There is initial stereo camera support if you use "left" and "right" as part of the camera names.  This is currently untested.