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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

This generates a job specifically for Digital Fusion.

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

DigitalFusion
Fusion
DF

Digital Fusion works by executing a script using the DFScript.exe program. By default, Smedge will generate a script for each packet and pass the scene information to that generated script. However, you can override this behavior with your own rendering script. Create a Digital Fusion script file called FusionRender.dfscript and put it in the Smedge folder on the rendering client.

Smedge will pass three parameters to the script: The scene file, the start frame and the end frame. The parameters will be passed in that order.

Clients have reported success with Fusion and Smedge if you open up the Fusion security. Specify the No login required to execute script option in the preferences:

Please note that this will mean looser security on your network. Be sure to adequately protect your network from misuse if you do this.