在Blender上安装RenderMan插件

2018/3/27

1. Download and Install Blender itself

2. Download RenderMan Installer (Need to register an account and choose the non-commercial (NCR) version)

3. Log-in, Show All and Select RenderMan ProServerr (Default Path: C:\Program Files\Pixar)

4. Installing the PRman-for-Blender addon from GitHub

   1. Install from Release Page
   2. OR, clone the Master source code as zip.
   3. See NOTE for the unexpected errors

5. Install addon in Blender

   To actually use the addon though we need to install it in Blender, so open up Blender and go to the addons tab (CTL-ALT-U). From here you can click on the install addon button and select the downloaded zip file.

NOTE: May have some unexpected error! Look at GitHub

• Look at Issues Page! They may just have some unofficial fix!

• Like when I was installing RenderMan for Blender, the only available version of RenderMan is v21.7 but the PRman-for-Blender only have official release of v21.5

• The problem was fixed by the unofficial lease https://github.com/adminradio/RenderManForBlender/releases/tag/v21.7-unofficial

• Episode: How did I get this link?

  • Firstly I looked at issue page
  • From #571, I clicked on the quickfix
  • One of the maintainer @adminradio commented at 3/22/2018 (5 days ago!), worked on solving the problem and submit an unofficial release for v21.7.

Reference

1. Youtube: Installing and Starting RenderMan for Blender
2. Intro to RenderMan for Blender

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太长不看的中文总结：

RenderMan for Blender是需要在Blender上安装RenderMan的插件，除了分别安装Blender, RenderMan以外，还需要到维护项目的GitHub上下载最新的对应的release.

如果安装时有error出现，直接到项目GitHub页查看Issue是最省事的。如果还是没有解决问题，可以向维护者提交新Issue。有时候有一些重复出现的error信息事实上是因为版本更替没有修复造成的。等维护者quickfix下载新版本即可。