playblasting mayapy black screen

[Juan Cristóbal Quesada]

Hi,

is it possible to playblast in batch mode with all hud options and multiple different cameras?

So far im getting a useless playblast mov file with black  background, some geometry moving, no huds and with no switching between cameras (it doesnt update correclty even leaving the only camera i want in each iteration as "renderable 1"...

[Marcus Ottosson]

Have a search on this mailing list, there's been a few topics on this before.

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[Juan Cristóbal Quesada]

i did search,

and there is no solution for this in the replies....

I think the only way to have HUDs in the playblast if you want to run it in a farn node is to instantiate the Maya GUI exe and run the script that opens the file and performs the playblast.....

There is no answer to how to do a playblast correctly in batch mode......

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[Juan Cristóbal Quesada]

Hi,

ive been playing with the Maya Python API, more specifically with the classes MPxLocatorNode and MPxDrawOverride which defines how a node renders in screen.

I ve come to a point where i have a basic HUD running in Maya GUI and when playblasting it works correctly. This is just a custom node with some attributes i set and then tell to render in viewport in the MPxDrawOverride inheriting class.

I was hoping that since im using the Maya API and that as stated, that class is responsible for how a node is rendered this should work as well when loading the plugin using the maya python interpreter mayapy.exe.

The thing is, it still doesnt work: When playblasting i keep getting an empty viewport without the HUD i set previously in python.

Am i doing something wrong? Shouldnt this work and be possible to playblast this way through mayapy.exe?