Renderman 19 released

[Hirazi Blue]

Just released: Renderman 19

For over twenty-five years RenderMan has been at the forefront of the visual effects revolution, and today RenderMan is a high performance renderer built to tackle the most complicated 3D imaginable. With the new state-of-the-art ray tracing RIS framework optimized for physically-based rendering combined with the efficiencies of the REYES architecture, RenderMan can deliver unmatched flexibility for any production pipeline.

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Free non-commercial RenderMan will be availabe in early 2015

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[MauricioPC]

Nice! Just hope more softwares will be supported.

[angus_davidson]

very unlikely , even though there are a few Modo users in amongst the renderman folks it wont go beyond Maya and Katana and you can jimmy it into houdini.

In theory if you got whatever 3d app to write a decent Rib file , and decent shader files you can use the command line.