Hasta La Motion!

Hello,

Short version:

Is there a way to call a render and save it to disk of a particular frame from within a MEL script ?

Longer version:

I’m programming a script in Maya for a non CG project – it serves mostly as a UI for another system … Thing is it turns out we’d like to render some frames after all but the thing is our code builds its elements per frame then deletes them all ready for the next (we output text files for use elsewhere), keeping everything and/or keyframing visibility and other attempts have bogged down the RAM with waaaaaaay to much geometry. If we could just call a render from MEL at the end of each frame that would output to disk it’d be awesome. When I select and use the render panel I see no MEL output in the script editor happening from which to distill the commands…

Is it possible ?

Kind regards…

Im going to be graduating soon from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in Visual Effects and Motion Graphics. I am making a World War 1 scene to be the main shot in my demo reel and I am looking for feedback and suggestions. It still has a ways to go.

The lighting on the tank is a low quality render because i haven’t finalized the texture on the tank, i am trying for a more “beat up” look
There are still several elements missing, such as explosion craters in the ground, barbed wire, blown out trees, biplanes in the distance with anti aircraft fire, as well as a more animated sky.

The fence on the right side of the screen will be removed.

I don’t know if i’m posting in the right place,
but.., I was wondering where people like alcali, diogo girondi are. Why they’re listed as "No longer here"?
🙂

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