Still no "render sequence" in Maya 2018

(Maya 2018) Still no "render sequence" facility for rendering animations in Maya ?

Hi BK, and thank you for getting back on this.
Error sequence is as follows:


( New in Maya 2018 ) [renderview button>Render Sequence]
Warning: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/scripts/others/renderSequence.mel line 26: Renderer "OctaneRender" does not provide a sequence render procedure ...

Back to the original purpose of the thread; the question of whether batch rendering will be available in Maya.

Is there any particular reason we can't render sequences from within Maya ?

Hi BK3D and thank you for the response !

Much appreciated, though I won't have the time to tinker again in the coming week or so (the usual deadline pressures) as we've had to return to the VRay setup to finish the project.

I do, however look forward to future builds to see whether it's viable ...

Ahhh, the octane material bug.. that’s a crazy yet understandable bug. I would never have solved that alone. Thank you once again for the outstanding insight!

Again, superb advice.. Thank you ! The NParticle>Alembic<OrbX is an interesting workaround


About instancer what is your issue ? particle instancer and Mash instancer are well supported in the plugin ....

Not, it seems, in 3.08.1 - 12.46-RC2 I'm afraid. They seem very fickle. I got them to ...

Calus, thank you very much for that reply. It really helped de-mystify a lot of the process. Very very much appreciated!

I did indeed set the "animator data" to "forced load" as part of the many and various attempts to export into standalone. When we were finally able to get the alembics working to ...

Hello folks,

Relatively new to Octane, we're in the process of evaluating whether we can switch after 6Years of VRay.
Main scene for current project translated well after less than a day of material/light etc conversion.
Looks great, renders in 3mins vs 30min in VRay All good. Looks Great in ...

Oh that's interesting. thank you for the reply Calus

I'm pretty new to Octane as we're just assessing the viability of switching from 6 Years of VRay. So far it's a no-brainer. Particles have been the only issue so far.
I couldn't get either Particles or Instancer to render in Octane - only ...