Command line render
 
 
 

You can render from a command line if you want to render an animation or single frame. Advantages include the following:

For more information, see Command line renderer in the Rendering Utilities guide.

mental ray for Maya command line options

The following mental ray for Maya command line options are supported during IPR:

-rg/region

Update the IPR region to the selected one.

-rr/regionRect

Set a new IPR region explicitly (works together with -region).

-pt/pauseTuning

Controls actual rendering of IPR requests, shader changes are always recognized in all cases.

-q -imr

Returns true (1) if IPR is active.