renderman batch rendering

[desser]

hello everyone. i have a problem trying to batch render from the command line using renderman. im using maya 2008 and 2009. i use 2008 for renderman rendering and 2009 for the new speed in mentalray rendering. i can command line batch render maya and mentalray scenes but when i try to batch render from the cmd to batch render scenes with renderman the maya2009 batch.exe launches up and prevents the maya2008 batch.exe to run so thus i cant render using renderman. i can only render with renderman within maya2008 and cant command line render because the maya2008 batch.exe wont start...help please..thank you

[filmgrain]

Your environment variable points to the maya 2009 installation so you just have to change it when you want to render with 2008. Open the advanced settings under control panel -> system -> system. May differ if your're on winxp but basically you open up the environment variables dialog, find the path variable and change it to what you need in your situation. If you know your way around some basic scripting it should be easy to automate this process.

[desser]

Your environment variable points to the maya 2009 installation so you just have to change it when you want to render with 2008. Open the advanced settings under control panel -> system -> system. May differ if your're on winxp but basically you open up the environment variables dialog, find the path variable and change it to what you need in your situation. If you know your way around some basic scripting it should be easy to automate this process.


hey thanks. im not really fancy with scripting but i do what can and need so i will look into that but to solve the problem i split my HD into 2 partitions and installed maya2009 on one and kept maya2008 on onther but uninstalled maya2009 from the master partition. everything is working fine now but i wish i'd read your post sooner. lol thanks again i will look into scripting it.