https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/rendering-mr-with-python/m-p/4291248#M14681 Hi Folks,<BR /><BR />I'm trying to setup a tool that renders out thumbnails of meshes with different cameras. Things are going along nicely but I can't figure out a very important python command.<BR /><BR />How can I render a single frame with Mental Ray through a Python command? I need to be able to specify the name of the image to be outputted as well as the camera that will do the rendering.<BR /><BR />cmds.render seems to only do software<BR />cmds.Mayatomr I can't figure out how to start the render with this one<BR /><BR />So is there a command like <BR /><BR />cmds.RenderWithMentalRay(camera = 'MyCam', file = 'C:/Stuff/Myfile.png, format = '.png')<BR /><BR />That's what I desire.<BR /><BR />Thank you very much!!<BR /><BR />-B Wed, 15 May 2013 00:16:23 GMT Anonymous 2013-05-15T00:16:23Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/rendering-mr-with-python/m-p/4291248#M14681 Hi Folks,<BR /><BR />I'm trying to setup a tool that renders out thumbnails of meshes with different cameras. Things are going along nicely but I can't figure out a very important python command.<BR /><BR />How can I render a single frame with Mental Ray through a Python command? I need to be able to specify the name of the image to be outputted as well as the camera that will do the rendering.<BR /><BR />cmds.render seems to only do software<BR />cmds.Mayatomr I can't figure out how to start the render with this one<BR /><BR />So is there a command like <BR /><BR />cmds.RenderWithMentalRay(camera = 'MyCam', file = 'C:/Stuff/Myfile.png, format = '.png')<BR /><BR />That's what I desire.<BR /><BR />Thank you very much!!<BR /><BR />-B Wed, 15 May 2013 00:16:23 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-programming-forum/rendering-mr-with-python/m-p/4291248#M14681 Anonymous 2013-05-15T00:16:23Z