Quickblast

A Maya plugin allowing playblasts for multiple viewports simultaneously

Steps to Build the Plugin

Required Dependencies

• Maya

This has been tested on Maya 2020 and above, but is likely to work on 2016+. It needs Viewport 2.0 support.

Building

    cmake -S . -B _build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DMAYA_VERSION=2025 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=...
    make -C _build && make install

Launch maya after setup for it to register this plugin.

Usage in Maya

This plugin provides the command quickblast which can be used as the example below.

quickblast
    -basepath "/playblast/root/directory"
    -format "png"
    -startTime 1001
    -endTime 1050
    -width 1920
    -height 1080
    -view "modelPanel1"
    -renderName "view1"
    -view "modelPanel2"
    -renderName "view2"
    -view "modelPanel3"
    -renderName "view3"
    -view "modelPanel4"
    -renderName "view4"