For information on the render settings, see Render Settings window.
Not all options are available for all renderers.
This section may be present, depending on the renderer you have selected. For information about color management with Arnold, see the Arnold for Maya User Guide.
Note that when an output transform is applied, the Render View still applies the view transform by default. Turn off the view transform in the Render View to avoid applying a double transform.
The name of rendered image files can consist of three separate components: file name, frame number extension, and file format extension. A combination of these three components is referred to as the file name syntax.
Right-click the File name prefix attribute to add one or more of these fields to the file name for your scene, for example, scene name, layer name, camera name, version number, current date or current time. Each of these fields are described in more detail below.
You can also create subdirectories to save out rendered images by adding a / (slash) in your file name prefix. For more information about the file name syntax, see Subfolders and names of rendered images.
xxx_yyy.png.1
instead of
xxx.yyy.png.1
Select this render token to add the scene name to your output file name.
Select this render token to add the render layer name to your output file name.
Select this render token to add the camera name to your output file name.
When rendering using passes, you can group render passes into logical file groups. Each render pass node has an attribute Pass Group Name that allows you to create a logical group. Select this render token to add the Pass Group Name to your output file name.
Select this render token to add the render pass node name (for example, diffuseNoShadow) to your output file name.
Many different types of render passes are available for selection using the Render pass Attribute Editor; for example, beauty, shadow, specular, and refraction. When you use this render token, a unique abbreviation of the pass type, of less than 6 characters, is appended to your output file name, for example, REFR for refraction pass.
Select this render token to add the extension to your output file name. In many cases, you do not need this token, since the file extension is automatically appended by Maya. However, you may want to create a directory structure using the file type. For example, if you are using the.png format, <EXT>/<RenderLayer>_<RenderPass> can create files such as the following: images/iff/bob_camera1_diffuse.1.png.
Select this render token to add the version to your output file name. You can set your version using the Version Label attribute.
Select to add the current date to your output file name. This field is not dynamic and captures the date and time at the moment that the token is inserted. Therefore, the date and time does not update once the token has been inserted.
Select to add the current time to your output file name. This field is not dynamic and captures the date and time at the moment that the token is inserted. Therefore, the date and time does not update once the token has been inserted.
The format for saving rendered image files. See also File formats. The default setting is PNG.
(For Maya software renderer) Click this button to select the compression method for AVI (Windows) or Quicktime movie (Mac OS X) files. When you click this button, the Video Compression dialog box appears. Select the desired compression method from the Compressor drop-down list. Currently, Maya only supports the Uncompressed and Cinepack Codec compression methods.
This button only becomes active when you select AVI (Windows) or Quicktime movie (Mac OS X) as your image format (for Maya Software renderer only).
These attributes appear when you select Maya Hardware 2.0 as your renderer and select EXR (exr) as your image format. Select among different compression methods and between the 16-bit half and 32-bit float data types.
For more information regarding the compression methods, see Image compression above.
The format (syntax) of rendered image file names. This attribute can be used to determine if a static image is to be rendered or a sequence. If the latter, several presets are available for you to choose how the frame number is appended to the filename.
The number of digits in frame number extensions. For example, if Frame/Animation ext is set to name.ext, and Frame padding is 3, Maya names rendered image files name.001, name.002, and so on. The default value is 1.
Selecting the Custom option under the Frame Buffer Naming attribute to activate this field. Use this field to select the render tokens of your choice to customize the naming of the channels in your OpenEXR file.
You can use a custom file format extension for rendered image file names by turning on Use custom extension, and entering the extension in the Extension text field. This extension replaces the standard extension based on file format, such as .PNG, .GIF, and so on.
You can add a version label to your render output filename. Use this attribute to customize the <Version> token in the File name prefix field in the Image File Output section.
You can select one of the following options: a version number (for example, 1, 2, or 3), the current date, or the current time. Right-click this attribute to add the version label you desire. The first two options available (use number: n) are automatically updated each time you insert a numeric version number. For example, if you have added version number 3, the first option automatically updates to use number: 2 and use number: 4. Alternatively, you can create your own custom version label.
Specifies the first (Start frame) and last (End frame) frames to render. Start Frame and End Frame are only available if Frame/Animation ext is set to an option containing # (see also Set file name syntax). The default value for Start Frame is 1; the default value for End Frame is 10.
The increment between the frames you want to render. By frame is only available if Frame/Animation ext is set to an option containing #. The default value is 1.
If you use a value less than 1, make sure the Renumber frames using option is turned on. Otherwise, many frames will appear to be missing when they are just being overwritten.
Enable this option so that the renderer detects and skips over frames that have already been rendered. This feature saves rendering time.
Lets you change the numbering of rendered image files for an animation. The Renumber frames attributes are only available if Frame/Animation ext is set to an option with # (such as name.#.ext).
If on, Maya uses the frame number extensions beginning at Start Number and increasing by By Frame for rendered image file names.
The frame number extension you want the first rendered image file name to have.
The increment between frame number extensions you want rendered image file names to have.
Render a scene from one or more cameras. The default is to render from one camera.
If you are rendering the scene from one camera (only), select the camera from the drop-down list. By default, the perspShape camera is the renderable camera.
The drop-down list is divided into sections, separated by dashes:
The first section is the camera currently selected as renderable.
The second and third sections list existing cameras that you can select as renderable, for example, stereo cameras and the front and side cameras.
The third section is the Add Renderable Camera option. If you want to add another existing camera to the list of renderable cameras, you can select Add Renderable Camera. When you select this option, a new Renderable Camera section appears. Select the additional renderable camera from which you want to render the scene from the drop-down list.
If you render from more than one camera, the rendered image output from each camera is stored in a different directory by default. For example, if you are rendering from camera1 and camera2, then the rendered images are stored respectively in camera1/scene.gif and camera2/scene.gif.
You can also override the default settings by using the File Name Prefix attribute. Right-click the File Name Prefix attribute and select Insert camera name <camera>. This way, all rendered images are saved to the same directory and identified with the camera name (for example, <camera>_<scene>.gif produces camera1_scene.gif and camera2_scene.gif). See File name prefix for more information.
For each renderable camera, you can also turn on or off the Alpha or Mask channel for that camera.
Controls whether rendered images contain a mask channel. The default setting is on.
Controls whether rendered images contain a depth channel. The default setting is off.
To make a camera non-renderable, remove it from the list by clicking the button beside the camera name. You should have at least one renderable camera in the scene. The remove button does not appear if only one renderable camera is listed.
The Image Size attributes control the resolution and pixel aspect ratio of rendered images.
For more information about resolution, see Resolution.
Select a film- or video-industry standard resolution. When you select an option from 7the Presets drop-down list, Maya automatically sets the Width, Height, Device Aspect Ratio, and Pixel Aspect Ratio.
You can also add a Presets option to output to an unlisted device.
Render Resolution | Width | Height | Device Aspect Ratio | Pixel Aspect Ratio |
---|---|---|---|---|
Custom |
any |
any |
any |
any |
320x240 |
320 |
240 |
1.333 |
1.000 |
640x480 |
640 |
480 |
1.333 |
1.000 |
1k Square |
1024 |
1024 |
1.000 |
1.000 |
2k Square |
2048 |
2048 |
1.000 |
1.000 |
3k Square |
3072 |
3072 |
1.000 |
1.000 |
4k Square |
4096 |
4096 |
1.000 |
1.000 |
CCIR PAL/Quantel PAL |
720 |
576 |
1.333 |
1.066 |
CCIR 601/Quantel NTSC |
720 |
486 |
1.333 |
0.900 |
Full 1024 |
1024 |
768 |
1.333 |
1.000 |
Full 1280/Screen |
1280 |
1024 |
1.333 |
1.066 |
HD 720 |
1280 |
720 |
1.777 |
1.000 |
HD 1080 |
1920 |
1080 |
1.777 |
1.000 |
NTSC 4d |
646 |
485 |
1.333 |
1.001 |
PAL 768 |
768 |
576 |
1.333 |
1.000 |
PAL 780 |
780 |
576 |
1.333 |
0.984 |
Targa 486 (tga) |
512 |
486 |
1.333 |
1.265 |
Targa NTSC (tga) |
512 |
482 |
1.333 |
1.255 |
Targa PAL (tga) |
512 |
576 |
1.333 |
1.500 |
Letter |
2550 |
3300 |
0.773 |
1.000 |
Legal |
2550 |
4200 |
0.67 |
1.000 |
Tabloid |
5100 |
3300 |
1.545 |
1.000 |
A4 |
2480 |
3508 |
0.707 |
1.000 |
A3 |
3507 |
4962 |
0.707 |
1.000 |
B5 |
2079 |
2952 |
0.704 |
1.000 |
B4 |
2952 |
4170 |
0.708 |
1.000 |
B3 |
4170 |
5907 |
0.706 |
1.000 |
2” x 3” |
600 |
900 |
0.667 |
1.000 |
4” x 6” |
1200 |
1800 |
0.667 |
1.000 |
5” x 7” |
1500 |
2100 |
0.714 |
1.000 |
8” x 10” |
2400 |
3000 |
0.800 |
1.000 |
Turn on this setting when you want to scale the image size proportionally in width and height. When you enter a value for either Width or Height, the other value is automatically calculated.
Specifies the type of rendering resolution ratio you want to use, Pixel aspect or Device aspect.
The Pixel aspect ratio is the number of pixels in width to height, that compose the image. Most display devices (for example, a computer monitor) have square pixels, and their Pixel aspect ratio is 1. Some devices, however, have non-square pixels (for example, NTSC video has a Pixel aspect ratio of 0.9).
The Device aspect ratio is the number of units wide by the number of units high of your display. A 4:3 (1.33) display produces an image that is more square, and a 16:9 (1.78) ratio produces an image that is more panoramic in shape.
Specifies the width of the image in the unit specified in the Size units setting.
Specifies the height of the image in the unit specified in the Size units setting.
Sets the unit that you want to specify the image size in. Select from pixels, inches, cm (centimeter), mm (millimeter), points and picas.
Specifies the resolution of the image in the unit specified in the Resolution Units setting. TIFF, IFF and JPEG formats are able to store this information, so that it is maintained when the image is opened in a third party application such as Adobe® Photoshop®.
Sets the unit that you want to specify the image resolution. Select from pixels/inch or pixels/cm (centimeter).
The aspect ratio of the display device on which you view the rendered image. The device aspect ratio represents the image aspect ratio multiplied by the pixel aspect ratio.
The aspect ratio of the individual pixels of the display device on which you are viewing the rendered image.
For more information about the pixel aspect ratio, see Pixel aspect ratio.
Lets you specify which Scene Assembly representations to render at render time.
See Render Assembly Representations.
Specifies that Active Representations in the scene render at render time.
Type in the fields to create a filter that specifies which representations to render at render time.
See Specify assembly representations to render and Create a filter that specifies representations to render.
The representation you want to render has the specified Name.
The representation you want to render has the specified Label.
The representation you want to render is of the specified Type.
When on, Maya uses the expressions in the Representation Name, Representation Label, and Representation Type fields to specify which representations render at render time.
See Use regular expressions to specify representations for render.
Not available for Vector Rendering.
Turn the default lighting on or off during rendering.
For more information about Maya’s default lighting, see Default lighting in Maya.
A MEL command or script to run before rendering each frame (Pre render frame MEL), or after rendering each frame (Post render frame MEL).
Notes: