A python script for rendering in Maya renderView by frame.

• Visualize rendering progress

A mission window showing each layer's rendering progress.

• Layer/Frame custom render order

Define rendering priority by layer or frame, and choose rendering forward or backward.

• Scenes rendering queue

Automatically switching files to render and available to auto saving file.

• Custom frame range

Rendering sequence or non-sequence by custom range.

• RenderJob layer

Multiple layers with different renderSettings but output same sequence name images.

• Layer override remote

Create or adjust camera/frame's layer override attribute without switching layer.

• Records rendering time

Record each frame's rendered time. V-Ray's renderSlave number can also be recorded.

• Send email notice

Sending notice by the events you choose.

• 1.1.0-Beta

• Supported Maya Version

  • Maya 2014
  • Maya 2015
  • Others not tested yet, better with pySide.

• Supported platform

  • Windows
  • Others not tested yet, should work.

1. Put this file dp_Domino.py into your Maya script folder, restart maya if necessary.

2. Copy the following code as shelf button(python).

   import dp_Domino
   reload(dp_Domino)
   dp_Domino.init_dp_Domino.dp_init()

3. Have a nice render.

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1. Open the scene that you want to render.

2. Press the shelf button of dp_Domino.

3. Adjust frame range, renderable camera and check other settings.

4. Press READY to open the progress window.

5. Adjust layers' rendering order if you have multiple layers.

6. Save scene.

7. If there's other scenes need to add in queue, close progressWindow. If not, jump to step9.

8. Repeat step 1 to 7.

9. Add other scenes into sceneQueue if current scene is not the only one needs to be rendered.

10. Press START to start render.

11. Hit Esc if you need to stop. But when rendering with V-ray, press STOP first and then Esc.

12. Wait for rendering progress complete and check images output.

• The current frame number showing in time slider is one frame ahead than actual rendering frame.

  Might be maya's ui evaluation problem, yet image output is correct.

• Maya went critical crash when you open renderSetting panel after dp_domino automatically open next scene in sceneQueue.

  Reason unknown. Try not to touch anything when using sceneQueue and it will work properly.