GDMFPoS!!!!!!

[pasithea]

You can figure out what those letters mean for yourself. Basically the gist of it is 'I LOATHE 3D ANIMATION PROGRAMS.'

So... I set my computer to rendering last night and off it went. 860 frames and I was so excited to see what the result looked like today because I'd gone gaga on the lighting and did soft focus spots and a lot of other stuff that took a long darn time to render.

I got... 860 frames of carpet, a couch, and two potted ferns. It hadn't rendered the wrong viewport. So I tried it again, making sure I selected the proper viewport and that was the one set in my rendering, and again it began rendering the wrong viewport (though this time I checked it after 1 frame was complete rather than waiting 16 hours)

So I exited out of Maya and came back in and tried it again and it... STILL RENDERED THE WRONG DARNED VIEWPORT!

So I read the docs!

Guess what! You have to select the default Perspective camera and uncheck 'Renderable' and then go to your camera and check 'Renderable' OR IT WILL ALWAYS BATCH RENDER THE WRONG F***ING CAMERA. Apparently you have to go in and keyframe render checking to render all shots in a sequuence in a single batch and the default is to render the entire range for the first camera, then the second, then the third, etc.

Stupid stuff like this and exploding models is why I so greatly prefer pencil and paper. Paper never accidently renders from the wrong perspective and pencils seldom explode.

Comments

[perlandria.livejournal.com]

You should bitch with Paka about skin weights in Maya sometime.

[lediva.livejournal.com]

You say exploding like it's a bad thing.

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

Exploding models? Do you have any outtakes we could see? :)

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

You have my sympathies. I feel this way about 3D Studio practically every time I run it.