Render Layer Problem (looping!)

[ididdy]

I am having trouble with render layers and batch rendering. I am rendering in mental ray using FG on a still image.

I have a scene with 5 render layers, they consist of different geometry and an occlusion layer.

When I go to batch render the scene, all of the layers are rendered ok in their individual folders but then Maya starts the whole process again, over righting the previously rendered images. It does this 5 times. (the same number as the number of render layers).

As you can imagine, this is very very annoying! There must be a simple solution to this. I have looked into the render layers options but the button that looks like a recycle logo is grayed out.

Can anyone please help!

Tim

[gmask]

I've encountered this with some version of maya on some platform

[ididdy]

Did you find a solution? I am using Maya 8.5 and windows xp.

[gmask]

by executing the renders from the commandline specifying which layer I wanted to render.

[ididdy]

I have never done that before, could you show me how I would go about doing that please. That would be a massive help!

[gmask]

make a text file in your scene folder

name it "render.bat"

enter the following command into it

render.exe -r sw -rl mylayer nyscenefile.mb

and then save and double click the file

[ididdy]

thanks Ill give that a go!