Setup

No setup steps required.



Disable Maya Crash Reports


There are some known cases in which the Maya crash reports stay open after a render crashed.

You can disable the crash reports by deleting the file Maya/bin/senddmp.exe


Submission


You have two ways to submit Maya scenes.





  • Via Maya plugin

    This is the recommended way. You have more options and it displays error messages.

    Installation:   
       You have to run the rrWorkstationInstaller at least once to install the RR_ROOT environment variable.

Start Maya and load the Maya plugin via the Plug-in Manager in Maya.


    Open your scene and use the new RRender menu to submit your scene.





  • Via rrSubmitter

Start the rrSubmitter and use the load button.

The submitter asks you if it should start maya batch to read all scene values.

Note: By default Maya creates a project structure if there is none.

It creates a file named workspace.mel and folders like /scenes.If there is a workspace.mel file, then no folder is created

Include all  lights in each render layer by default


The Render Layer Setup window in Maya has a setting named "Include all  lights in each render layer by default".

This is a local setting and is not saved with the scene.

Which means that if you enable this setting and render it on a different machine, it will look differently.


The RR submission plugin reads your setting and enables/disables the rrJob option "noIncludeAllLights" accordingly.

 file.

Custom Maya Preferences (Maya.env, pluginPrefs.mel)

RR copies the Maya preferences from 
[RR]\render_apps\renderer_prefs\maya\win_x64\2018 to C:\RR_localdata\renderer_prefs\maya\win_x64\2018

And tells Maya to use these preferences.


You can use your own preferences and copy them into [RR]\render_apps\renderer_prefs\maya\win_x64\2018


Note: "2018" should be replaced with the Maya version you use.



Note: RR can automatically switch from Render Setup to Legacy Layers. 
But this does only work if the preferences are set to the default "Render Setup".


If you want to use a different preference source folder, then you can either edit the maya_inhouse.rrEnv file to define the variable
RR_MAYA_PREFS = mycustomFolder

or set RR_MAYA_PREFS inside the job.

See Render Environment.