How to ''Render to texture'' using the command line?

jimKUQZ5 · ‎07-31-2023

I have to render long sequences using the "Render to texture" functionallity in maya/Arnold. (Bake lighting to mesh)

There is this ui within maya to render to texture but this will not scale up to our needs, renderfarm/viewport/pipeline.

- Is it possible to implement this on a renderfarm? (Kick the renders using command line tools)

- Is it possible to view an interactive render in the arnold renderview? (For artist lookdev)

Stephen.Blair · ‎07-31-2023

Render to Texture is a Maya command, so you can script it like this:

import maya.cmds as cmds
cmds.arnoldRenderToTexture("pCubeShape1", folder="/temp", resolution=2048, all_udims=True)

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jimKUQZ5 · ‎07-31-2023

Thanks was able to implement this in the mayaBatch executable! Now runs smoothly on the renderfarm 🙂

Any suggestions for the viewport?

jimKUQZ5 · ‎08-08-2023

@Stephen.Blair One of our artists noticed that it is possible to view "baked" renderings in the octane renderview.

Can we replicate something like this in Arnold? Would be nice to have this functionallity embedded as a camera.