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Hi,

Can anyone enlighten me as to how to export a static fly-though from Maya 2012. The documention shows an "Export Static Fly-through" button in the General Settings/render setting but does not appear in my windows. I only have two feilds " Enable Motion Blur and "Maya instances to "Maxwell Instance". Is this Export static fly-though field else where.

Any response would be greatly appreciated as I'm working on a very tight deadline.

Thanks, Peter

That option was removed because it had some issues. The information in the manual is outdated, we haven't updated it in a while because we're working on an improved documentation system.

Anyway, that option did nothing to render times, it was supposed to reduce export times by processing the geometry only once and writing just the camera movement in subsequent frames. Are you experiencing very long export times?

Hi Mihnea,

Thanks for your reply. I've got 3000 frames to export so its sort of a big time saver for me. Anyway I'll make do with what I've got. Exporting is obviously a linear process and only takes up 1 core, I'll let the other 7 cores render out the frames while Maya exports the remaining frames. Oooh how I'd love to use fire to render this animation.....

Cheers

You can use FIRE. Set the quality to "draft" instead of "production" in the render options panel, and Maxwell should render with RS0, which is the engine used in FIRE. If you're running Maxwell from the command line, the same thing can be achieved by passing the -rs:0 flag.