pymel.core.rendering¶

Functions related to rendering

Functions

`ambientLight`	The ambientLight command is used to edit the parameters of existing ambientLights, or to create new ones.
`assignViewportFactories`	Sets viewport factories for displays as materials or textures.
`batchRender`	The batchRender command is used to spawn off a separate rendering session of the current maya file.
`binMembership`	Command to assign nodes to bins.
`camera`	Create, edit, or query a camera with the specified properties.
`cameraSet`	This command manages camera set nodes.
`cameraView`	This command creates a preset view for a camera which is then independent of the camera.
`checkDefaultRenderGlobals`	To query whether or not the defaultRenderGlobals node has been modified since the last file save, use `ls -modified`.
`convertIffToPsd`	Converts iff file to PSD file of given size In query mode, return type is based on queried flag.
`convertSolidTx`	Command to convert a texture on a surface to a file texture.
`convertTessellation`	Command to translate the basic tessellation attributes to advanced.
`createLayeredPsdFile`	Creates a layered PSD file with image names as input to individual layers
`createRenderLayer`	Create a new render layer.
`createSurfaceShader`	create a shader and shading group
`defaultLightListCheckBox`	This command creates a checkBox that controls whether a shadingGroup is connected/disconnected from the defaultLightList.
`directionalLight`	The directionalLight command is used to edit the parameters of existing directionalLights, or to create new ones.
`displacementToPoly`	Command bakes geometry with displacement mapping into a polygonal object.
`doBlur`	The doBlur command will invoke the blur2d, which is a Maya stand-alone application to do 2.5 motion blur given the color image and the motion vector file.
`dolly`	The dolly command moves a camera along the viewing direction in the world space.
`editRenderLayerAdjustment`	This command is used to create, edit, and query adjustments to render layers.
`editRenderLayerGlobals`	Edit the parameter values common to all render layers.
`editRenderLayerMembers`	This command is used to query and edit memberships to render layers.
`exclusiveLightCheckBox`	This command creates a checkBox that controls a light’s exclusive non-exclusive status.
`frameBufferName`	Returns the frame buffer name for a given renderPass renderLayer and camera combination.
`getRenderDependencies`	Command to return dependencies of an image source.
`getRenderTasks`	Command to return render tasks to render an image source.
`glRender`	This command provides access to the Hardware Render Manager (HRM).
`glRenderEditor`	Create a glRender view.
`hwReflectionMap`	This command creates a hwReflectionMap node for having reflection on textured surfaces that currently have their boolean attribute displayHWEnvironment set to true.
`hwRender`	Renders an image or a sequence using the hardware rendering engine
`hwRenderLoad`	Empty command used to force the dynamic load of HR render
`imagePlane`	The imagePlane command allows querying of various properties of an image plane and any movie in use by the image plane.
`iprEngine`	Command to create or edit an iprEngine.
`layeredShaderPort`	This command creates a 3dPort that displays an image representing the layered shader node specified.
`layeredTexturePort`	This command creates a 3dPort that displays an image representing the layered texture node specified.
`lightList`	Add/Remove a relationship between an object and the current light.
`lightlink`	This command is used to make, break and query light linking relationships between lights/sets of lights and objects/sets of objects.
`listCameras`	Command to list all cameras.
`lookThru`	This command sets a particular camera to look through in a view.
`lsThroughFilter`	List all objects in the world that pass a given filter.
`makebot`	The makebot command takes an image file and produces a block ordered texture (BOT) file, to be used for texture caching.
`nodeIconButton`	This control supports up to 3 icon images and 4 different display styles.
`nodePreset`	Command to save and load preset settings for a node.
`ogsRender`	Renders an image or a sequence using the OGS rendering engine
`orbit`	The orbit command revolves the camera(s) horizontally and/or vertically in the perspective window.
`panZoom`	The panZoom command pans/zooms the 2D film.
`perCameraVisibility`	The perCameraVisibility command creates, queries and removes visibility relationships between DAG objects and cameras.
`pointLight`	The pointLight command is used to edit the parameters of existing pointLights, or to create new ones.
`preferredRenderer`	Command to set the preferred renderer.
`prepareRender`	This command is used to register, manage and invoke render traversals.
`projectionManip`	Various commands to set the manipulator to interesting positions.
`psdChannelOutliner`	Create a psdChannelOutliner control which is capable of displaying a tree structure upto one level.
`psdEditTextureFile`	Edits the existing PSD file.
`psdExport`	Writes the Photoshop file layer set into different formats.
`psdTextureFile`	Creates a Photoshop file with UVSnap shot image and the layer set names as the input.
`rampColorPort`	This command creates a control that displays an image representing the ramp node specified, and supports editing of that node.
`render`	The render command is used to start off a MayaSoftware rendering session of the currently active camera.
`renderGlobalsNode`	The renderGlobalsNode creates a render globals node and registers it with the model.
`renderInfo`	The renderInfo commands sets geometric properties of surfaces of the selected object.
`renderLayerPostProcess`	Post process the results when rendering is done with.
`renderManip`	This command creates manipulators for cameras or lights.
`renderPartition`	Set or query the model’s current partition.
`renderPassRegistry`	query information related with render passes.
`renderQualityNode`	The renderQualityNode creates a render quality node and registers it with the model.
`renderSettings`	Query interface to the common tab of the render settings
`renderThumbnailUpdate`	Toggle the updating of object thumbnails.
`renderWindowEditor`	Create a editor window that can receive the result of the rendering process
`renderer`	Command to register renders.
`resolutionNode`	The resolutionNode creates a render resolution node and registers it with the model.
`roll`	The roll command rotates a camera about its viewing direction, a positive angle produces clockwise camera rotation, while a negative angle produces counter-clockwise camera rotation.
`sampleImage`	The sampleImage command is used to control parameters of sample images, such as swatches in the multilister.
`setDefaultShadingGroup`	The setDefaultShadingGroup command is used to change which shading group is considered the current default shading group.
`setRenderPassType`	This command will set the passID of a renderPass node and create the custom attributes specified by the corresponding render pass definition.
`shadingConnection`	Sets the connection state of a connection between nodes that are used in shading.
`shadingNetworkCompare`	This command allows you to compare two shading networks.
`shadingNode`	This command creates a new node in the dependency graph of the specified type.
`showShadingGroupAttrEditor`	The showShadingGroupAttrEditor command opens up the attribute editor for the current object’s shading-group information.
`soloMaterial`	Shows a preview of a specified material node output attribute.
`spotLight`	TlightCmd is the base class for other light commands.
`spotLightPreviewPort`	This command creates a 3dPort that displays an image representing the illumination provided by the spotLight.
`surfaceSampler`	Maps surface detail from a source surface to a new texture map on a target surface.
`surfaceShaderList`	Add/Remove a relationship between an object and the current shading group.
`swatchRefresh`	The swatchRefreshcommand causes image source node swatches to be refreshed on screen.
`textureWindow`	This command is used to create a UV Editor and to query or edit the texture editor settings.
`track`	The track command translates a camera horizontally or vertically in the world space.
`tumble`	The tumble command revolves the camera(s) by varying the azimuth and elevation angles in the perspective window.
`uvLink`	This command is used to make, break and query UV linking relationships between UV sets on objects and textures that use those UV sets.
`viewCamera`	The viewCamera command is used to position a camera to look directly at the side or top of another camera.
`viewClipPlane`	The viewClipPlane command can be used to query or set a camera’s clip planes.
`viewFit`	The viewFit command positions the specified camera so its point-of-view contains all selected objects other than itself.
`viewHeadOn`	The viewHeadOn command positions the specified camera so it is looking downthe normal of the live object, and fitted to the live object.
`viewLookAt`	The viewLookAt command positions the specified camera so it is looking at the centroid of all selected objects.
`viewPlace`	This command positions the camera as specified.
`viewSet`	This command positions the camera to one of the pre-defined positions.