Maya batch rendering problem

[kencfk]

I'm having problems when doing batch render in my drive e:. I have no problem when batch rendring in c:. The funny thing is that there's no problem when doing a single frame render or IPR in the render view. Whe I render in my E:, I get this message:

***** Error: Cannot Open Project.
Cannot open project: E:/LearningError: File not found.: ./Maya

Please help!

[camay]

check your permission setting in the properties of your drive e:

[kencfk]

I've changed the permissions on drive E but I still got the same problem. I was wondering whether does Maya batch render only in its project - c:WinntprofilesAdministratormayaprojects. The thing is that I've manage to create a new and set the project in drive e. But why can't I batch render on it. I've been puzzling, could it be a bug or something?

[camay]

If I understand, you have make a new project in drive e: but you still cannot batch render on it ?
Try this (if you not already), when you make a "new" project in your drive e: mkdir in your e: before. In maya new project windows ,clic use default, in this way when you start batch render, you save to "render" folder and your images go to the "images" folder

wish this help

[gav]

another important step to this process is to make sure that you create project, and click on the use default settings (like already stated above). Then when you open maya, set project, then open your scene file. If you open your scene file, then set project, it wont work, I had these problems when I first started to use maya 2.0, simply because maya 1.0 wasn't quite as sensetive to doing the process this way.

[kencfk]

Hi Camay and Gav,

I've solved the problem. It seems that Maya doesnt like to have project
folders with ****_Maya or Maya_****. If you want to include the word Maya,
you should join the word into one like this "MayaProjects" for example. Now
the projects work in any drive or directory I use. Many people might not know
this one. But I manage to overcome this annoying "bug". Batch render works
gorgeously. Till then.....to infinity and beyond.

Regards,

Ken

[maryjane]

i've encountered this problem quite a bit, and the solution that i've found is to not have spaces in my folder names. the underline might be doing it also. but whenever i've changed it to one word w no spaces on the end, it goes just fine.
just a thought

[kencfk]

Thanks Mary!

Best regards,

Ken