Rendering utilities

Start FCheck

To start FCheck on Windows

Do one of the following:

From the Start menu, select Start > Programs > Autodesk > Autodesk Maya 2009 > FCheck
Open <drive>\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya\bin folder and double-click the FCheck application.
Open the command prompt and enter fcheck.

The FCheck playback window and command prompt window appears.

To start FCheck on Mac OS X

In the /Applications/Autodesk/maya2009 folder, double-click FCheck.

The FCheck Playback Window and FCheck info window appears.

Tip

You can click-drag the FCheck icon from a Finder window to the Dock to create a shortcut to the application.

The FCheck info window and keyboard shortcuts listed in the tables at the end of this chapter allow you control the image or animation in the FCheck Playback window.

To start FCheck on Linux

In a shell window, type FCheck followed by the name of the image you want to display:

fcheck -<option> myimage

For a list of options, see FCheck options list

You can display several images at once using wildcards (that is, *). Enter the following to displays all images whose names begin with the characters mytest:

fcheck mytest*

Each image appears in a separate window.

For an animation, you can use the dot extension (.) and FCheck automatically finds the start, end and step values for the sequence. Enter the following to display all images whose names begin with the characters mysequence in a single window:

fcheck mysequence.

On Linux, you must specify a file to open.

For information on using the command line with a sequence filename, please see Convention for opening files.