Also, you will need a commercial Houdini license (not indie) if you want to play with it :(
On Monday, 23 March 2015, Andreas Bystrom <[email protected]> wrote: > for playing around with it, sure, but if you use softimage I don't think > prman is a serious alternative for commercial projects these days. 3delight > will export ribs sure, but to actually get those to render in prman is a > different thing, getting shaders to work etc. > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Francois Lord <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Well... the non-commercial version is a damn good reason to use it. I >> sure will try it once it's available for Houdini. >> >> On 23-Mar-15 17:47, Andreas Bystrom wrote: >> >> I think the old XSIMan by graphicprimitves was the closest you could >> get to a prman bridge, sadly the product was discontinued a long time ago.. >> I tested it quite a bit when it came out, nice little plugin but the >> implementation was rather basic in a way, no render-region support etc. >> >> there is also the opensource affogato: >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/affogato/ >> >> >> anyway, with all the renderers out there I don't see much reason to use >> prman anymore.. >> >> -Andreas >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Rob Chapman <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >>> cmd line renderman is available but not sure how you would make a rib >>> with all the new shader parameters etc straight outa softimage :( >>> >>> On 23 March 2015 at 21:32, Daniel Brassard <[email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >>> > Just received notice from Pixar that Renderman free for non-commercial >>> use >>> > is now available. >>> > >>> > Does anybody have used Renderman before with Softimage and is their a >>> bridge >>> > between Softimage and Renderman available? >>> > >>> > (yes, I have Maya too, so I can use it with Maya but I would like to >>> test >>> > Renderman with Softimage) >>> > >>> > Cheers! >>> > >>> > Dan >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> >> >
