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As mentioned in the installation docs, RenderMan for Blender requires RenderMan Pro Server (RPS) to be installed on your machine. How the addon finds RPS can be set in the preferences:

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Changing RenderMan Location to Choose From Installed will allow you to select from the ones that are installed in the default location. You can also set it to Set Manually and manually set the location of RPS. The default is to consult the RMANTREE environment variable. Any changes to this will require a restart of Blender.

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To start rendering with RenderMan, first, change the current Render Engine setting to RenderMan Render.

To do that you can either:

Use 1. Use the handy Use RenderMan shortcut in the object context menu. Right-click in the viewport and select Use RenderMan.

2. Or , change it from the render properties panel

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Your render should appear in the Blender render window.

Alternatively, you can also render to RenderMan's "it" framebuffer by changing the Render To setting from "Blender" to "it".

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