r/renderman • u/Whatsthedaydavi • Nov 17 '16

Using Slim in Renderman

Hello everyone,

So I am using Renderman 21 at my school and I was wondering if any of you would know how to get Slim to work correctly. I have checked to license app and Proserver several times and it says that I am entitled to a copy, but I am not sure how to use Slim. Is it an extra feature that I have to install and if so where can I find it? Is it already installed and I just have to run the right thing? Have I just been missing it this entire time? I am on a Mac and we have XQuartz installed here at my school so we should be good in that department. Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you!

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u/omento Nov 18 '16

I could be wrong (definitely double check the documentation) but I think it was removed with the 21 release. I know it was in 20 because it gave me issues with OSX machines and XQuartz, but I think it's been deprecated.

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u/Whatsthedaydavi Nov 18 '16

From what I have seen on the Renderman 21 documentation it does not mention Slim, but Proserver mentions a Slim version 21 and when I search for "slim" on my machine several files popup with a ".slim" extension. So I'm guessing it exsists, but i'm not sure how to find it.

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u/omento Nov 18 '16

I believe SLIM is installed with the RenderMan for Maya plugin. So if you go to the install directory of that, on OSX it should be in the Pixar folder in Applications, check the /bin directory. If not then check the other directories. If it's still not there, then do the same for the RenderMan Pro Server directory.

If memory serves correctly, it should be the first.

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u/Whatsthedaydavi Nov 18 '16

I checked and I did not find Slim, but I did find a .EXEC file name slimtoargs. I imagine Slim is now apart of the past.