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Rendering from a command line

This is a part of tool_RenderLayers functionality, you can use command line to start a render process with a specified parameters.

First of all you need to enter that block

--sdk-begin <put custom cmds here> --sdk-end

Inside that block you can enter a list of arguments from the following:

--render <arg>,
        where arg can be
            layers - render according to the render layers plugin setup
            offline - render in offline mode
            window - render in online mode
--close        close mobu after render operation is finished

next arguments are only for window and offline mode

-- camera <arg>,
        where arg is a camera name in the scene
-- antialiasing <arg>,
        where arg can be
            true - enable antialiasing (sampling)
            false - disable

-- startTime <arg>
-- stopTime <arg>
-- stepTime <arg>
-- pictureFormat <arg>
-- showTimeCode <arg>
-- showSafeArea <arg>
-- showCameraLabel <arg>

-- codec <arg>,
        where arg
            uncompressed - save without any compression
            asked - ask user to choose codec
            stored - use scene saved user codec
-- outputFormat <arg>            
-- outputFile <arg>,
        where arg is a render output path and file

Examples

Several examples of command lines for running a rendering in MotionBuilder

1) Running a render layers rendering query

start /d "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\MotionBuilder 2014\bin\x64\" motionbuilder.exe -console -suspendMessages --sdk-begin --render layers --close --sdk-end X:\_MB_UNIT_TEST_SCENES\Reflections.fbx

2) Running a simple window rendering

start /d "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\MotionBuilder 2014\bin\x64\" motionbuilder.exe -console -suspendMessages --sdk-begin --render window --close --sdk-end X:\_MB_UNIT_TEST_SCENES\Reflections.fbx

Python Utility to help preparing command line parameters

There is a python tool - CmdLineRenderingTool