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Products Available To Render

3ds max (6.0+)	Alias Renderer	Lightwave	MentalRay
3ds max (via SFRender)	Chalice	Maya(5.0 or earlier)	MentalRay for Maya (5.0 or earlier)
After Effects	Digital Fusion	Maya (6.0+)	MentalRay for Maya (6.0+)
Air	Generic Scripts	Maya Vector Renderer (5.0)	Rayz
Alias PowerCaster	Houdini	Maya Vector Renderer (6.0+)	Shake
Alias PowerTracer	imgcvt	Maya Hardware Renderer (6.0+)	SoftImage
Alias Raytracer	Jig	MayaMan	XSI

Alias has four different renderering executables depending on which type of rendering you wish to do. Because they are different executables, to fit in the Smedge design, you must select the type of rendering you want to do as the actual product. You can select the Renderer, Raytracer, PowerCaster, or PowerTracer products.

To create a Renderer job via commandline, you can use the following parameters for the -product switch (case is ignored):

Renderer

To create a Raytracer job via commandline, you can use the following parameters for the -product switch (case is ignored):

Raytracer

To create a PowerCaster job via commandline, you can use the following parameters for the -product switch (case is ignored):

PowerCaster

To create an After Effects job via commandline, you can use the following parameters for the -product switch (case is ignored):

PowerTracer