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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

3ds max, version 5 or earlier, is controlled via a third party commandline rendering controller written by SplutterFish. You must install this program in your 3ds max folder. More details of its installation and usage are included in the distribution package, and can also be viewed by clicking here. Click here to download the commandline program.

To create a 3ds max (via SFRender) job via commandline, you can use the following parameters for the -product switch (case is ignored):

SFRender
Max5
Max4
Max3

You can use the Common Render Options dialog for chosing command line parameters for customizing the renderer.

Each option in the dialog alters the default behavior of the max renderer by toggling the option on or off as labeled with each check box. For more information about what each option does, please see the max and the SFRender documentation.