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Loading the Addon
Like any other addon for Blender, RenderMan for Blender can be loaded/enabled from the Preferences (Edit→Preferences), under the Addons tab.
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Finding RenderMan Pro Server
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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- First, try and find based on your preference.
- If the choice from installed or set manually has failed, we fallback on consulting the RMANTREE environment variable
- If the preference was to consult RMANTREE and that failed, we fallback to try and detect the latest version found in the default installation path
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Your First Render
To start rendering with RenderMan, change the current Render Engine setting to RenderMan Render.
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Alternatively, you can also render to RenderMan's "it" framebuffer by changing the Render To setting from "Blender" to "it".
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