Welcome to RenderMan for Blender 24!

This new release of RenderMan for Blender 24 (RfB) has been completely rewritten to take advantage of the RenderMan 24 toolset, including XPU™, Stylized Looks, and MaterialX Lama.

RenderMan for Blender 24 represents a completely new code path compared to the previous version of RenderMan for Blender (which supported RenderMan 21).  This version takes advantage of the new interactive rendering capabilities that were introduced into RenderMan several years ago, where the old version was batch render oriented.

This current release offers support for:

Please see the release notes below for all the new capabilities and known issues!

What's New

RenderMan for Blender has been extended to support all of the features of RenderMan 24, including:

Source Code

You can download the source code for RenderMan for Blender here: https://github.com/prman-pixar/RenderManForBlender


  • Canceling a render from "it" will crash Blender. One workaround is to cancel the render from Blender.
  • Translating Cycles shading networks is not supported.
  • Not all curve types are supported.
  • Grease Pencil is not fully supported.