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RenderMan for Maya is installed using the RenderMan Installer, which manages the downloading, installation and licensing of RenderMan Pro Server (the actual renderer) along with RenderMan for Maya and/or RenderMan for Katana.
On Windows and OS X, the installer configures RenderMan for Maya. After installing, you should be good to go. Start Maya, and RenderMan for Maya should appear in the Plug-in Manager's list of plug-ins.
On Linux some manual configuration is necessary (see below).
On Windows and OS X you do not need to manually configure the RenderMan for Maya plug-in. The following instructions are for advanced users.
Rendering with Xgen
Please note that users may need to set the correct path variables for Xgen to render.
- %MAYA_PATH%/bin
- %MAYA_PATH%/lib
- %MAYA_PATH%/plug-ins/xgen/bin
- %MAYA_PATH%/plug-ins/xgen/lib
- %RMANTREE%/lib;
Where MAYA_PATH is your installed location of Maya for your operating system (OS). See the table below where to add these paths based on your OS.
For example, on Windows you might have the following path: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Maya2018\
When updating/changing versions you may need to reset/remake your Maya Preferences if the above settings no longer work.
For each OS below it should be added to the following system environment variables:
Operating System | Environment Variable |
---|---|
Windows | PATH |
Linux | LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
OSX | DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH |
Note that Interactive Groom on Xgen introduced in Maya 2017 is not currently supported. It must be baked/exported as an Alembic cache before rendering.