System Requirements

Hardware

RenderMan now requires CPUs capable of running the full SSE4.2 instruction set. A minimum of 4GB of RAM is recommended. Your scene data may require more.

For AI A.I. Denoising in "it", Optix 7 supported hardware, Nvidia Maxwell and newer.

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Operating System

Linux: CentOS/RHEL 7.2+

Windows: Compatible with Windows 10 and 8.1

macOSApple OSX: Compatible with 10.13, 10.14 and 10.15* (*we do not support 10.15 using the installer. You must manually install the packages after the main installer has downloaded them)

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Bridge Products

Maya: Compatible with 2020, 2019, 2018 Update 3+ (we do not support 2018.1 or 2018.2 due to Autodesk changes)

Katana: Compatible with 3.05, 3.12, 3.21, and 3.50

Houdini: Compatible with 1718.0, 17.5, and 1817.0 0 production versions (Indie available on the recent release of 17.5 and 18 Houdini)

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Building Plugins and Tools

Plugins for RenderMan: Custom RenderMan plugins now require C++14 in order to be compiled and must be compiled with gcc 6.3 / Visual Studio 2015 / Xcode 10

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