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[MtoA] Warning: Renderer “arnold” does not provide batch rendered options

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Not all renderers have batch render options, so if you click the box beside the Batch Render menu command:

menu_options_box

then you’ll get a warning:

// Warning: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2017/scripts/others/batchRenderOptions.mel line 19: Renderer "arnold" does not provide batch rendered options. // 
// Warning: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2017/scripts/others/batchRenderOptions.mel line 19: Renderer "mayaHardware" does not provide batch rendered options. // 
// Warning: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2017/scripts/others/batchRenderOptions.mel line 19: Renderer "mayaHardware2" does not provide batch rendered options. // 
// Warning: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2017/scripts/others/batchRenderOptions.mel line 19: Renderer "mayaVector" does not provide batch rendered options. //

All the rendering options for Arnold are in the Arnold Render Settings.

To start a batch render, click the Batch Render text in the Render menu:
render_menu

[SItoA] Unlimited batch rendering with xsibatch -processing

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Hat tip: Andy Jones on the Softimage mailing list

You can use xsibatch -processing to render scenes with Arnold. With -processing, xsibatch uses a Processing token instead of a Batch license, so you’re not limited by the number of Batch licenses you happen to have. Back in the days before third-party renderers, -processing for was for non-rendering tasks. Now it’s for non-mental ray tasks!

I was sure I tested this long ago, but obviously I must have made a mistake on my command line. 


 xsibatch -processing -render //server/project/Scenes/example.scn

=======================================================
 Autodesk Softimage 11.1.57.0
=======================================================

License information: using [Processing]
# INFO : [sitoa] SItoA 2.7.1 win loaded.
# INFO : [sitoa] Arnold 4.0.12.1 detected.

Here’s actual proof in the form of a screenshot 🙂

xsibatch_processing_render