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	Wed, 07/Oct/2009 2:30 PM
QuakeMarine1 177 Posts	currently we have per renderer a separate modul if a scene include software and mental ray we can send 2 jobs one -r MR + one jobs -r SW + define the passes(or remove from file) 1 job as "-r file" "-r file" options is the simple way cos Maya uses whatever is set in the scene on the other hand we can not access MR specific overwrites in the GUI maybe i am wrong but thats not true render.exe -r file -mr:rt 16 -mr:ts 8 -mxw:ml --proj ... set the MR bucktes to 8pixel and threads to 16 and for Maxwell it enable multilight
	Wed, 07/Oct/2009 3:58 PM
Robin 1138 Posts	I haven't heard anything about this, but I'll give it a try and see if it works. If so, it will take a bit of work to get the Maya module to show a nice GUI with this, but you can always add any desired extra command line parameters manually in the "Render Overrides" tab of the Submit job window, even if there is no pretty GUI button for it on that tab. -robin
	Thu, 08/Oct/2009 4:40 PM
Robin 1138 Posts	Wow, cool, I had no idea you could do that, but I have tried it and it does allow you access to many of the command line parameters to customize each render layer. Interestingly, however, you cannot override the render threads for the Maya Software renderer (the -n flag), which makes it a bit less useful for Smedge specifically. That said, to implement this multi-flag system in the Smedge GUI with a nice interface for each option would take a major reworking of the Maya module. This sort of reworking will not be possible for the Smedge 2010 release. If there is sufficient interest, we can look into adding this to the Smedge 2011 feature set. Remember, you can still add the flags manually in the "Render Overrides" tab's top area, where the command line flags are displayed. Even if they don't get put into the GUI controls correctly, the actual contents of this text area is what is added to the command line, so you can still make use of it, in any version of Smedge. -robin
	Thu, 15/Oct/2009 1:30 PM
QuakeMarine1 177 Posts	we could be more smarter and re-write the render decition that way we can include any Mel cmd as render flag other anti alising or other FG mode could be set in cmd line directly
	Thu, 15/Oct/2009 3:29 PM
Robin 1138 Posts	I looked into this a bit more, and I think I can add it actually more easily than I had thought. I'll give it a try once I get a chance to adjust the Maxwell Module to handle Maxwell 2. Thanks -robin
	Sat, 17/Oct/2009 6:12 AM
QuakeMarine1 177 Posts	there is even more possible we can incluse into the render deciption our own cmds and link mel script to it. that way we can workaround the theads problem for -n maybe? i dont have the link to hand but i included a line into the deci. and was able to set the maximal memory via cmdline afterwards in theory all render settings from all renderer can be accessed that way we are not limited to the "-r file -help" list

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