Max Batch Mode VS Maya Batch Mode

Hi All,

I'm not a Max guru and If this question has been asked before I apologize. I'm just wondering if there's any Max Batch Command, where you can run Max in batch mode. It's kinda annoying to open up Max everytime to do some basic task and thats not a good workflow. Let say I want to convert .MAX file to .MYFORMAT, one good workflow for this is to run Max in batch mode and convert them all without opening Max. If thats not possible please let me know and thank you very much for your help.

Mayabatch.exe flags:
-v prints the product version and cut number

-batch for batch mode

-prompt for interactive non-gui mode

-proj [dir] look for files in the specified project dir

-command [mel command] runs the specified command on startup

-file [file] opens the specified file

-script [file] sources the specified file on startup

-log [file] copies stdout and stderr messages to the specified file
(use complete file name)

-recover recover the last journal file

-render [file] renders the specified file
(use 'Render -help' for more options)

-optimizeRender [file] [outfile]
optimize maya file efficient for rendering
purposes, and put result in outfile
(use 'maya -optimizeRender -help' for more options)

-archive [file] displays a list of files required to archive
the specified scene.

-noAutoloadPlugins do not auto-load any plug-ins.
-help prints this message

 

 

-nn

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j_man's picture

nn,  well, if you want to

nn,

 well, if you want to change geomerty, materials, translate formats etc then you need to have max open!

What you can do is command line rendering,  and surporisingly you can also submit custon jobs to BB using the command line to achieve pretty much anything you want, from changing registry settings to formating hard drives. what do you know.

seriously though, you might consider a script for doing such things as you asked but you will need max to be open.

 J. 

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