Re: OT: Benchmarking Maya´s performance at render time. MentalRay benchmarks between SI

2016-01-12 Thread Pierre Schiller
Yes, I believe that's what they really mean... On Jan 11, 2016 2:18 PM, "Luc-Eric Rousseau" wrote: > I don't think it's meaningful to compare Maya and XSI, because they > render differently. If you do a render in XSI from the GUI, it > renders with the embedded mental ray and shows you the progr

Re: OT: Benchmarking Maya´s performance at render time. MentalRay benchmarks between SI

2016-01-11 Thread Luc-Eric Rousseau
I don't think it's meaningful to compare Maya and XSI, because they render differently. If you do a render in XSI from the GUI, it renders with the embedded mental ray and shows you the progress. If you do batch render from Maya, it launches mayabatch in the background and then you can continue t

OT: Benchmarking Maya´s performance at render time. MentalRay benchmarks between SI

2016-01-10 Thread Pierre Schiller
Hello everyone. A good friend of mine told me "Maya doesn´t preview (show) the render whenever you´re batch rendering, since it takes up resources". For me that´s valid on really heavy scenes (we all agree, we just want that render done without eating up graphic ram for no cause other than a previ