Hey all,
I'm making a script which relies heavily on mental ray. I'm using
pymel (which helps a lot with mental ray commands), but I hit a
problem when I try to customize any of the render quality settings.
For example:
if pluginInfo("Mayatomr", query=True, loaded=True) != 1 :
loadPlugin( "Mayatomr" )
else :
print "The Mental Ray plugin is loaded."
setAttr("defaultRenderGlobals.currentRenderer", "mentalRay",
type="string")
setAttr("defaultRenderGlobals.enableDefaultLight", 0)
setAttr("miDefaultOptions.minSamples", 0)
setAttr("miDefaultOptions.maxSamples", 2)
Once Maya hits the lines of code where I'm trying to edit the anti-
aliasing samples I'll get an error. But if I click on the quality tab
(and I guess this is enabling the mental ray globals?) and run the
same two lines
setAttr("miDefaultOptions.minSamples", 0)
setAttr("miDefaultOptions.maxSamples", 2)
it works!
So, I'm guessing somehow I need a line or two of code beforehand
enabling the mental ray globals.
Does anyone know how to do this?
-Geoff
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