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[roguexen]

Greetings. I have an addition to the local vault of stupid questions: is the current version of Prorender for Mac Os able to render a sequence in Maya? Because I can’t seem to make it render anything but static shots. If a sequence is possible, can anyone be kind enough to explain the main steps of the process? When I opt Render sequence in the menu, I get a message that prorender doesn’t support it. When I push Batch render... well, nothing happens. I’m running on iMac 2017 with a 8Gb Radeon 500. Maya is 2018.3

[bsavery · Accepted solution]

Batch render seems to work for me here.  Can you check the console that rendering happens and there should be output files in your images/ directory of your maya project folder.

If you're rendering out with PNG or TIFF format you might see different folders for "color" and "opacity" files.

[roguexen]

As soon as I press the start batch render button, i get this message in the console: Maya.app/Contents/scripts/others/ batchRender options.mel line 19: Renderer FireRender does not provide batch render options.

[bsavery]

I think you're pressing the square next to "Batch Render" and not the menu item itself?  If you have to change the frame number etc do that from the render options.

[roguexen]

I tried both. If I just press the Batch render line, the status bar shows a red indicator wth a sign ”socket error creaing command - name of my mashine - 7835(49)

[bsavery]

So I think this is a maya side issue (and maybe not related to RPR specifically).  When you do batch rendering in maya it does the batch render in a separate process and uses sockets to communicate between them.  You might need to turn off the firewall in your machine or better add an exception for maya to communicate across it.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-shading-lighting-and/batch-render-error/td-p/4018619

[roguexen]

But I don’t have any firewall isnstalled on my mashine! ))) or is it somekind of magical apple fire wall that works even when it doesn’t exist?

[stevetalkowski]

I've registered just to bump this topic to the top. I, too, am unable to render an image sequence in Maya. I'm currently running 2018.3 on Mac OS 10.13.6.

Any ideas?

Thx,

-Steve

[shrisha]

Yes sequence is not working for me either. But batch render works just fine. Do all settings in render common tab. go to render menu and press batch render.

[teress]

When I hit Batch Render, it will start rendering first frame 1%-100% and then immediately jump Maya crash window "A software problem caused by Autodesk Maya 2018 to close unexpectly. Maya is still running, but crashed some rendering part of Maya.

(Maya 2018.4, macOS Mojave, Vega Frontier Edition.)

So at this time Pro Render only render still images but NOT ANIMATION, very sad

[bsavery]

Did you guys check out the beta builds that should enable sequence rendering?

[teress]

No, because on download page there is no option to download any beta...

[shrisha]

It's here one thread below. In Weekly Beta builds of Radeon ProRender for Maya

[shrisha]

Also no problem with batch render on Windows. Probably Mac version related bug.