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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

Maya Hardware Renderer (6.0+)

This submits a job for the Maya Hardware Renderer that comes with Maya versions 6.0 or later. Smedge cannot control the hardware renderer built into Maya 5.0.

To create a Maya Hardware Renderer (6.0+) job via commandline, you can use the following parameters for the -product switch (case is ignored):

MayaHardware
MHardware
Hardware
hw

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.