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The following operating systems are supported for this release. RenderMan may operate outside of this requirement, but it may be unstable and is not supported:
- Apple OS X 10.1213.x, 10.14.x, and higher10.15.x
Pixar's RenderMan software is delivered as:
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The flavor string includes the common distribution, e.g. Sierra, the gccthe clang/icc versions, and the microprocessor instruction set, e.g. i686. Putting them all together provides, for example, an OSX Yosemite package named RenderMan-Installer-23.0_1842953-osxYosemiteosxMojave_xcode6icc150clang10icc190.x86_64 .dmg. .
The following additional requirements must be met:
- All: CPU capable of running the full SSE4.2 instruction set.
- Maya: Compatible with 2020, 2019, and 2018.3+
- Houdini: Compatible with 17.0, 17.5, and 18.0
GUI-based Installation
To install the software, simply double-click on the appropriate DMG file that was downloaded.
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