Card #3493 · Autodesk App Store
Difficulty achieving consistent playblast-like renders in headless Maya
Merchants are struggling to generate viewport-style renders or playblasts when running Maya without a GUI (headless) via mayapy or Render.exe. They encounter issues with black screens, missing object visibility (like NURBS curves and joints), and incorrect lighting/shading that differs from the interactive UI.
Pain score
0.58/ 1.00 · weighted product of four components
Reach0.73distinct authors (log-normalized)
Recency1.00freshness decay, half-life months
Engagement0.23upvotes + comments, normalized
Monetization0.50willingness-to-pay cues in evidence
§ Evidence — 4 verified quotes
creating playblast in a with no active GUI in Maya is, well, technically irrelevant since in playblast you're actually creating snapshots of the viewport.
I'm trying to playblast a rig panel directly from a script (without maya ui) using mayapy. My issue is that my resulting images look different when playblasting from the script editor (within the maya ui) and from my mayapy script.
I'm trying to run the playblast command in mayapy.exe but only receive a black screen.
Using the script editor I can see my NURBCurves and joints in my image, but they disappear when using my script.
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