Rendering picture of a colored teapot based on user's choice =)

The Pyside dialog that has the following elements:

• a view for displaying rendered image
• a view for displaying output log of the renderer
• a color picker to change the color of the objects in the scene
• a render button

When user clicks render button, the program use renderer python API to render a teapot frame to disk with user-defined color and display image and the log in the UI.

• UI :

  • Pyside2

• Render Script:

  • maya
  • mtoa
  • arnold

python setup.py install

If its not already done you may have to add to sys.path all paths associated with maya, mtoa and arnold Otherthise you may face import errors when the script will run the rendering process in a maya standalone env.

import sys

sys.path.append("/autodesk/maya2019/bin/") # For maya

sys.path.append("/opt/solidangle/mtoa/2019/scripts/") # For arnold & mtoa

Maya working directory should be setted to the static folder where the teapot.ma is found

This app could be divided in 2 parts:

By running the following commands you'll get the shown UI:

cd python

python main.py

The script is python/static/arnold_render_script.py it takes 3 flags as input(one/channel) and give below outputs Picture and log file are saved in the static folder by the script and are then loaded back and displayed by the UI.

cd python

python static/arnold_render_script.py -r 250 -g 0 -b 0

Had lot of issue settings up maya to work with the tools, I ended up having some segmentation fault errors while trying to run arnold renderer script in a maya.standalone context except for two times where it did works. There is something I've probably missed I think, because I've test the code directly in maya and I was able to get rendered pictures/log file...