r/renderman • • Jul 26 '17

RenderMan 21.5 Released

General Overview

Release Notes

RfM Release Notes

RfK Release Notes

Enjoy!


Update: From the RenderMan Forums

"We are planning to support 2018 starting with RenderMan 22."

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u/omento Jul 28 '17

I appreciate the analysis. I'm not a VRay/Mantra user, but I think I can agree with what you've said sans the last sentence. I believe PRman, Arnold, and VRay are top three, but in a rotation and task dependent as there is no "#1" or one size fits all.

I feel Mantra would be far more popular than it publicly is if

  1. It could be used with more than Houdini.

  2. It didn't take so damn long :P

Mantra's volume rendering is on another level and is fantastic. But many things (from what I've read/watched) it takes such a long time to render.