playblast in batch mode

[Michał Frątczak]

Is it possible? How ?

thanks :)

[Michał Frątczak]

It seems my problem is linux display driver, or smth similar. I get either "Error: Can't open display:" or:

VP2 Warning : Graphics hardware has been detected to have insufficient memory (0.0234375 MB). 

Please check your video card and driver to ensure that a minimum amount of memory exists (512 MB). 

The environment variable MAYA_OGS_GPU_MEMORY_LIMIT can be used to explicitly set the GPU memory limit.

VP2 Warning : Insufficient shader level capabilities. Vertex (3 vs 4), Geometry (0 vs 0) Pixel (3 vs 4) VP2 Warning :

Graphics hardware feature level insufficient to support renderer (2 vs 4)

[Paul Molodowitch]

Know it's possible - we set it up to do so at my work, but I wasn't the one to do it, so I don't know the details.  We're on linux, so we had to make sure X was started (and I think we had to have a screen physically hooked up, so no farm machines with no monitors attached).

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[MalikW]

The way to "playblast" in batch mode is to use the maya Render cmdline https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2015/ENU/Maya/files/Command-line-renderer-Render-from-the-command-line-htm.html.
It uses less overhead than a full interactive maya session, you can split jobs across multiple machines and you don't need to have the screen visible at all, as Maya can offscreen render with this cmd. Any setup you need can be done using the pre and post render flags. You can render using hw2.0, which is identical to Maya's viewport2.0 renderer which most people playblast from. I've set this up before at a large windows shop that would do over 100 playblast scene renders per day.

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 9:45:36 AM UTC-8, elrond79 wrote:

Know it's possible - we set it up to do so at my work, but I wasn't the one to do it, so I don't know the details.  We're on linux, so we had to make sure X was started (and I think we had to have a screen physically hooked up, so no farm machines with no monitors attached).

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 4:07 AM Michał Frątczak <f.mi...@gmail.com> wrote:

It seems my problem is linux display driver, or smth similar. I get either "Error: Can't open display:" or:

VP2 Warning : Graphics hardware has been detected to have insufficient memory (0.0234375 MB). 

Please check your video card and driver to ensure that a minimum amount of memory exists (512 MB). 

The environment variable MAYA_OGS_GPU_MEMORY_LIMIT can be used to explicitly set the GPU memory limit.

VP2 Warning : Insufficient shader level capabilities. Vertex (3 vs 4), Geometry (0 vs 0) Pixel (3 vs 4) VP2 Warning :

Graphics hardware feature level insufficient to support renderer (2 vs 4)

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at 10:57:14 AM UTC+1, Michał Frątczak wrote:

Is it possible? How ?

thanks :)

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