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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, RenderMan_for_Maya.py
On Linux some manual configuration is necessary (see below).
On Windows and OS X (non-Catalina) 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.
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 |
BiFrost and its exports of data, including its default Alembic attributes are not expected to work correctly and are unsupported in this version.