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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 Maya versions from 6.0 onwards. To render with a previous version of Maya (1.0 to 5.0), use the Maya (5.0 or earlier) Product.

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

Maya

With a Maya (6.0+) job, you can use the Common Render Options dialog for Maya.

Checking on a box on the left of the window will add the appropriate command line switches with the informatin from the right side of that box. A wide variety of options are available, but if you want to add other commandline parameters, you are free to do so by hand in the Extra Parameters field of the Submit Job dialog. See Extra Parameters in the Jobs manual page for more information.

Please note that there is a bug in Maya 6.0 that stops Smedge from capturing the output. The output capture is vital for Smedge to determine the rendered frame files, and to verify successful completion of a packet. Because of this bug, the verification and filename detection has been disabled for Maya 6. Alias is aware of the problem. If a fix is released, Smedge will adapt at that time, and re-enable all of these abilities for Maya.