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Maya Extra Parameters "Cheat Sheet"

Tom Reinert
posted this on September 06, 2009 10:55 pm

Use these parameters to override settings at render time
(NOTE: incorrect settings can cause render errors)

 

name

 

param

 

value

 

description

xResolution

 

-x

 

<int>

 

set X resolution of the final image

yResolution

 

-y

 

<int>

 

set Y resolution of the final image

motionBlur

 

-mb

 

<boolean>

 

motion blur on/off

motionBlurByFrame

 

-mbf

 

<float>

 

motion blur by frame

motionBlur2D

 

-mb2d

 

<boolean>

 

motion blur 2D on/off

enableDepthMaps

 

-edm

 

<boolean>

 

enable depth map usage

enableRayTrace

 

-ert

 

<boolean>

 

enable ray tracing

reflections

 

-rfl

 

<int>

 

maximum ray-tracing reflection level

refractions

 

-rfr

 

<int>

 

maximum ray-tracing refraction level

shadowLevel

 

-sl

 

<int>

 

maximum ray-tracing shadow ray depth

edgeAntiAliasing

 

-eaa

 

<quality>

 

The anti-aliasing quality. Options: highest, high, medium, low

useFilter

 

-ufil

 

<boolean>

 

if true, use the multi-pixel filtering; otherwise use single pixel filtering.

shadingSamples

 

-ss

 

<int>

 

global number of shading samples per surface in a pixel

maxShadingSamples

 

-mss

 

<int>

 

maximum number of adaptive shading samples per surface in a pixel

outputFormat

 

-of

 

<format>

 

output image file format. Format options: gif, pic, rla, tif, tif16, sgi, als, iff, jpeg, eps, iff, cin, yuv, sgi16, tga, bmp


*** Remember to place a space between option flags and their arguments. ***
Any boolean flag will take the following values as TRUE: on, yes, true, or 1.
Any boolean flag will take the following values as FALSE: off, no, false, or 0.

 
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