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#Introduction# This is the home of the PRMan for Blender addon for Renderman 21.x. The addon is a free way to try and learn how to use Pixar's RenderMan rendering software with the Blender animation solution. If you're just getting started, please take a look at the links below.

Please note that PRMan for Blender is developed by a small, dedicated group of professionals and weekend warriors working mostly in their spare time. We move fast, and as a result documentation on new features may be incomplete, or missing entirely at first. We'll get it in eventually 👍

Installation

• Download and Install the Addon
• Feedback and Support

Rendering

• Sampling
• Motion Blur
• Integrators
• Advanced Settings
• Internal Rendering
• External Rendering
  
  
• Path tracing, sampler settings and noise reduction tips

Objects

• Renderman Objects
• Object Settings

Materials

• Adding a New Material
• Renderman Materials
• Textures
• Displacements
• Volumes

Lamps

• Adding a Light
• Light Types and Controls
• Geometry Lights
• Light Filters

Camera

• Camera Options
• Camera Projections
• Depth of Field

IPR (Interactive Rendering)

Interactive Rendering is rendering mode that allows instant updates to a render while editing lights, materials. It performs full lighting and shading calculations in real time to give the actual image one would see from rendering.

• IPR Features & Use

Other Features

• Particles
• Hair
• Smoke/Flame
• Light/Object Groups
• AOV’s/LPE’s
• Sample/Display Filters
• Light Linking
• Rib archives
• OSL
• Baking

Output File References

If you have a real burning desire to understand the formatting of the .rib and .alf files that PRMan for Blender outputs, please see below. A lot of simple problems can be solved when you understand how they work.

• RIB Files
• ALF Files