I did a Maya Help and Google search and I'm getting some helpful tutorials, but cloth is brand new to me in Maya and there's a SEA of information out there. I don't even know enough about it to know...

http://www.holomatix.com/blaze/solutions/3d-modellers/

Seems like a great way to get quality, real-time renders online. Does anyone use this, or something similar?

I have created a low-poly...

Sorry guys, I know I'm so needy right now.

I've found a major problem with my file and why it's not batch rendering. I googled it (since Maya Help isn't helping) and found this explanation:
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Freak. I'm such a newb.

After my render troubles here at work, my bosses suggested we look at professional render farms to have this project rendered. We found one that looks good.

They want...

Yes, it's me again. Sorry to post another problem--I figured it's better to start a new thread when it's a new problem. Hope this doesn't seem like spamming. You guys have been very helpful in...

Seriously, thanks so much. That saved me a lot of time. Here goes nuthin!

Sweet--thanks! I'm glad to know it's possible to render MR from the command line, I've been looking for an answer to that all day.

I'll try again tomorrow. Thanks again for your help, all.

Thanks, I'll look into the firewall/anti-virus stuff.

Is there a way to render from the command line when rendering with Mental Ray? I've been looking for a solution to that all day. Everything...

P.S. I've tried rendering the same frame set as CPU 2 on others, and that's not working. So we know it's not just certain frames that it likes or doesn't like.

I'm now trying to do this on a 4th...

Okay, I'm stuck.

I've got 1 file, I'm trying to render it on 3 machines. The only difference I've made is in the Render Globals I've divied up the frame numbers, so CPU 1 is rendering 1-100, CPU...