RenderMan for Houdini (RfH) 24.0 currently only provides support for the following production Houdini versions: 17.5.460, 18.0.597, 18.5.532, 18.5.563, 18.5.596.

• Rendering with RenderMan will not operate on Houdini Apprentice editions, see Side FX's website for options that allow Third Party Rendering

The environment variable for RfH must be listed first in the houdini.env file. (Windows requires a semi-colon) For example:

HOUDINI_PATH=$RFHTREE/18.5.596:&

RenderMan for Houdini with Solaris requires an additional line in the configuration file to be able to render in-memory vdbs:

RMAN_PROCEDURALPATH = $RFHTREE/18.5.596/openvdb:&

RenderMan for Houdini on Windows requires an additional line in the configuration file:

PATH=$RMANTREE\bin;&

Additional instructions and details are found below in this document.