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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

11 Comments

  1. Charles Marshall on

    Awesome that work has started again on this workflow. I'm elated. I hope for more continued support and interoperability with industry standard platforms for Blender and I believe it's developer community will grow in both quantity and quality exponentially.

  2. I played around with Prman earlier but soon realized that it was more complicated than I was prepared for. Thanks a bunch for this, it ought to be a good head start.

    • Without wishing to offend, do yourself a favour, upgrade. In my experience, 3D work is so much better under 64bit. The memory restrictions of 32 bit are crippling.

  3. Silly me, I didn't have Renderman installed fully.

    It's actually working great! I cannot believe it, it's been a long time coming.

    PIXAR in Blender!
    Now to learn all the buttons.......

  4. Well I thought I had RM installed a while back with a maya trial. Perhaps it didn't fully install then and I just forgot about it. I re run the installer and it got a fresh copy from their server; so perhaps this might need to be done to be up to date if you are not already. The RM installer couldn't write to the Pixar.license file so I had to manually alter the permissions half way through the install process to allow the computer to write to it. (That could be just my system though.) And then that installed fine.

    I followed the install instructions on github, by placing it inside the blender addons without going through the install process and it appeared as an option to enable. I then enabled that and switched to the RM renderer in the top drop down and it was good to go!

    It doesn't seem to stay as the default renderer when saving user preferences unfortunately.

    I hope that helps.

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