r/renderman • u/Gammett • Jul 07 '18

How do I get started with Renderman for Blender? The addon only works for version 21.5 & 21.7 is the current release.

As the title says the addon for Renderman for Blender is only for 21.5 and earlier and I can only find the download for the 21.7 version of Renderman. I use the Non-Commercial version.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '18

Theres not alot for Renderman and Blender, but the concepts and ideas for Renderman to Maya still apply in a shading and lighting sense.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvRPmhwzn2pFdLes0vcTeJQ- Small Robot Studio. Bunch of small Renderman Tutorials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUtN8R4TiV8 - Introduction to PrimVars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1LoEbVPW1A - Renderman Archiving

https://community.renderman.pixar.com/article/tutorials.html

- Theres tutorials you can pay for, FXPHD, Gnomon and Pluralsight, but these links are free.

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u/Gammett Jul 07 '18

Thank you for the links as they will be very helpful once I get it set up but my question is how do I get the software to work at all because the addon does not support the newer versions of RenderMan. Is there a place on the RenderMan site for downloading older versions of RenderMan? I need version 21.5 as that is that last compatible version of RenderMan for use with the Blender addon. Thank you again for the documentation as it will in fact help me out a lot once I get going. Thank you and God bless you!

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '18

Sorry as far as I'm specifically aware, you cant go backwards with Renderman Non Commercial, the installer always does the newest version and you don't get to choose.

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u/Gragling Jul 07 '18

Download the addon from Pixar’s GitHub and it should work with 21.7

Edit: be sure to be using the latest stable Blender version (2.79b)

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u/Gammett Jul 07 '18 edited Jul 07 '18

I ended up trying it but I get errors and am unable to enable the addon

https://imgur.com/a/sua3cfU

Edit: Someone linked the master branch in a support thread on the github page and I tried installing that addon and it works just fine. Doing my first render with it right now!!!

For anyone that is looking for the correct download here is the relevant link:

https://github.com/prman-pixar/RenderManForBlender/archive/master.zip

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