Forcing viewport redndering engine

[Anonymous]

For compatibility issues, we need to force users to use Viewport 2.0 with the 'OpenGL - Legacy' rendering engine (as it's in preferences->display->viewport 2.0).

We're in a studio situation, relying on user preferences is not sufficient. Any suggestions on how to force this at startup via a script, cmd-line option environment variable, etc... I can't find any documentation on it.

Using maya.cmds.modelEditor doesn't work as the only options are: [u'Viewport 2.0 (OpenGL)', u'Default Quality Rendering', u'High Quality Rendering', u'Stub Renderer'].

Cheers,

Jesse

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi Jesse,

I think what you are looking for is the following mel script:

setRenderingEngineInModelPanel "OpenGLLegacy"

Had to force my users to use the directx11 rendering engine over here and this was the solution

cheers!

[Anonymous]

Thanks, that led me in the correct direction.

I'm using 

 maya.cmds.optionVar( stringValue = ( 'vp2RenderingEngine' , renderingEngine    ) )

to force the rendering engine. If it's called in the userSetup, Maya doesn't need to be restarted. If Maya has already finished launching, it will require a restart. Setting the optionVar directly avoids the restart prompt.

It takes one of the following values: 'OpenGLLegacy' , 'OpenGLCoreProfileCompat', 'OpenGLCoreProfile'

If you give it any other value it defaults to OpenGLLegacy