Forum: Blender


Subject: Blender to RenderMan

Ayamikhan opened this issue on Feb 09, 2008 · 10 posts


Ayamikhan posted Sat, 09 February 2008 at 4:55 PM

In autumn last year the Blender to RenderMan forum created by Ted Gocek,
that was at http://www.bestfreeforums.com/forums/blendertorender.html,
was deleted by the host for no reason.

Neither he nor I have a copy of the SQL database, or the facilities to set up
our own PHP forum server, or maintain one, so we discussed spreading a
new forum across a Google Group, Blogger account, and Googlepages site.

These are now at :

http://groups.google.com/group/blendertorenderman

http://blendertorenderman.blogspot.com

Announcements, discussions, questions and answers can be posted to the group.

In addition, once developers of Blender to RenderMan export tools join the group, they will be invited to join the blog.

Announcements about exporters and other tools can be posted on the group,
with a link to a more detailed post on here, which will also be able to include images, as well as better options for syntax highlighting of code. 

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haloedrain posted Sat, 09 February 2008 at 6:02 PM

Quote - Blender to RenderMan forum...was deleted by the host for no reason.

Ouch!  Good luck with the new one.


Ayamikhan posted Sat, 09 February 2008 at 6:23 PM

Quote - Good luck with the new one.

Thank you.

We chose a distributed HTML rendering approach this time :)

Rendered unconscious in 3D dreams

http://blendertorenderman.blogspot.com
http://neurochemic.blogspot.com
http://tenzintogden.livejournal.com
http://ttenzin.googlepages.com
http://eurochemistry.googlepages.com
http://ayamikhan.deviantart.com
http://www.youtube.com/Ayamikhan


ysvry posted Sat, 09 February 2008 at 9:26 PM

good luck are there pictures of this exporter around? maybe upload the best here.

for some free stuff i made
and for almost daily fotos


Ayamikhan posted Sat, 09 February 2008 at 9:57 PM

Quote - are there pictures of this exporter around?

 

There are several different tools for exporting from Blender to RenderMan and there will be screenshots posted by the respective developers that are members of the blog.

The Blender to RenderMan export tools at this time are :

A good page on how Neqsus/BToR is used with Blender and Aqsis can be seen here :

http://wiki.aqsis.org/guide/blender_pipeline

Rendered unconscious in 3D dreams

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http://neurochemic.blogspot.com
http://tenzintogden.livejournal.com
http://ttenzin.googlepages.com
http://eurochemistry.googlepages.com
http://ayamikhan.deviantart.com
http://www.youtube.com/Ayamikhan


Gog posted Mon, 11 February 2008 at 9:45 AM

And for folks who don't own renderman there's the option of aqsis....

http://www.aqsis.org/

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.


Ayamikhan posted Mon, 11 February 2008 at 2:34 PM

Quote - And for folks who don't own renderman there's the option of aqsis

 

RenderMan is a generic term for any renderer, including Aqsis, that conforms to RiSpec, the Pixar RenderMan Interface Specification. So, as well as Pixar's Photorealistic RenderMan, there is also :

There are a number of links in the blog's sidebar to various tools and resources for Blender, RenderMan and generic 3d. 

Rendered unconscious in 3D dreams

http://blendertorenderman.blogspot.com
http://neurochemic.blogspot.com
http://tenzintogden.livejournal.com
http://ttenzin.googlepages.com
http://eurochemistry.googlepages.com
http://ayamikhan.deviantart.com
http://www.youtube.com/Ayamikhan


Gog posted Wed, 13 February 2008 at 9:18 AM

As far as I'm aware RenderMan is a pixar product. https://renderman.pixar.com/

There are other renderer's which support some / most / all of the renderman spec, but they are not the RenderMan product.

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Toolset: Blender, GIMP, Indigo Render, LuxRender, TopMod, Knotplot, Ivy Gen, Plant Studio.


haloedrain posted Wed, 13 February 2008 at 9:27 AM

Attached Link: https://renderman.pixar.com/products/whatsrenderman/index.htm

*"RenderMan is also an industry standard interface specification for photorealistic renderers"*

Near the bottom of the page.  I guess it's the difference between RenderMan with the little registered symbol and without. ;)  But yeah, I mostly assume people mean the pixar one when they say that.


ysvry posted Thu, 14 February 2008 at 12:23 AM

i think i stick with blenderman for the moment. ;P

for some free stuff i made
and for almost daily fotos