Can not find the default camera for rendering

Maya
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How can I retrieve the current camera set in the renderGlobals? I can not find a corresponding attribute in the defaultRenderGlobals.

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every and each camera has a own is renderable variable!

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Yeah, I know, but I don't mean that. In the renderGlobals you can mark a default camera for rendering. Where can I find that attribute?

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you can use batch render command line flags to forcr a specific camera! But it still has to be marked renderble.

And the preview render command calls the camera to be rendered. Theres no atribute around for this.

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Thanks, I'm already familiar with this. Maybe we talk at cross purposes or I'm too ignorant to accept I cannot access through MEL the attribute I can access through the GUI shown here: http://www.renderregion.com/renderGlobals.gif
It's not the problem to specify the camera I want to render, I simply want to retrieve the camera which is set to be the default camera for rendering the scene.

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Yes its a illusion of sorts! What it does is it iterates trough every camera and sets their renderable flags to proper settings! You can change it but it isnt a atribute its a connection!

the prcedure that controlls this is called changeMayaSoftwareCamera; its defined in maya/scripts/others/createMayaSoftwareCommonGlobalsTab.mel wich does reset the renderabele flags of the cameras as well as connection one forced controll!

have a read.

PS. I dont understand why you guys cant dig into this yourselves i mean echoing all askin whatIs for procedure names and using emacs or another text editor isnt THAT hard.

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Thanks!

P.S: You're absolutely right! I will work on that. The problem is before your answer I didn't even know the procedure changeMayaSoftwareCamera is hidden in the createMayaSoftwareCommonGlobalsTab MEL file.

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When you echo all maya gives you hints, now if you want to know where a certain porcedure is actualy located you can kindly ask maya for it

Exampe:

whatIs thisStupidPocedureThatMayaKeepsEchoingAbout

And maya will kindly tell you what or where it is located or defined that is.

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Thanks for the hint. Hoped I would have discovered the whatIs command before.