You can render from a
command line if you want to render an animation or single frame.
Advantages include the following:
- works with single images and animation
- uses less memory than having all of Maya
(UI) running
- can be scripted
- can be integrated into a rendering pipeline
(render farms)
- for Maya software rendering, you can
override render settings using command flags (for other renderers,
you must also write a MEL script)
For more information,
see
Command line renderer .