Is there raytracing in Blender yet?

harlequin · July 26, 2003, 4:31pm

NT

tordat · July 26, 2003, 4:35pm

NO

harlequin · July 26, 2003, 4:44pm

O.k., later.

sonix · July 26, 2003, 8:12pm

Doesn’t 2.27 (&2.28?) port to renderman? That’s a raytracer almost inside blender.

Sonix.

phlip · July 26, 2003, 9:16pm

tuhopuu does the renderman thing but i don’t think it’s finished yet

theeth · July 27, 2003, 6:16pm

There’s also some preleminary YafRay support.

Martin

qiv · July 28, 2003, 4:54am

use yableX to export ur scenes to yafray and render there… its allready a very strong renderer

Dani · July 28, 2003, 5:10am

you can use povanim too to export to povray which is a very complete renderer too

dwmitch · July 28, 2003, 7:56am

Renderman isn’t exactly free (or even cheap.) Native Renderman support will promote piracy, and eventually Pixar will start to crack down on the Blender Foundation. It might be best to keep Renderman out of the public releases.

BgDM · July 28, 2003, 7:59am

Actually, what sonix meant to say was it exports to 3DLight, which is a Renderman compliant renderer. Not actually Renderman.

BgDM

Timonides · July 28, 2003, 8:13am

I second to that and I wanted to add (allthough I am not very sure…) that modeling programs (such as Blender ;)) are allowed to use the Renderman Interface standard (i.e. output RIB or
make the API calls) without the need of a license… Your only obligation is to display
Pixar’s copyrights…

Spyros.

Rhysy_2 · July 28, 2003, 9:53am

Maybe I’m stupid, but I can’t see any way to use the renderman feature with 2.27/2.28…can’t find any renderman buttons…am I being very silly ?

cekuhnen · July 28, 2003, 12:28pm

na you are not stupit.

in 2.27 and 2.28 there is no rib export.

the rib export is only in the tuhopuu build!