Renderman support ?

[preecher]

renderman has not been fixed for a few builds now.  i'm just wondering if you are no longer supporting it?  I don't wish to waste my time with it if it is not being supported going forward.

 

thank you

[Bungeecow]

I hope this is not true, I just bought 3dCoat because of the Renderman function!!

[AbnRanger]

6 hours ago, Bungeecow said:

I hope this is not true, I just bought 3dCoat because of the Renderman function!!

Tell Andrew that, so he can get it started up again (support@3dcoat.com). I think one reason why it may have stopped is because the developer who implemented the Renderman support, has been busy creating a brand new GPU Path Tracing render engine in 3DCoat, slated for 3DCoat 2020 (probably late this Spring or Summer). Renderman support is quite limited in it's usefulness in this current implementation, because there is no interactivity, shadow-catching material, etc.  

[L'Ancien Regime]

On 3/27/2020 at 7:04 PM, AbnRanger said:

 ...creating a brand new GPU Path Tracing render engine in 3DCoat, slated for 3DCoat 2020...

Now that is interesting ...

AdoredTV says Path Tracing is the way of the future. 

 

 

 

[preecher]

wow thanks for the info.  I really like having a renderer that is functioning in 3dcoat.  I wasn't aware they where working on a new dedicated one.  thanks again.  I really love the software.

[AbnRanger]

For what it is worth, it does work with 3DCoat build 4.9.05

[welcomerobots]

For what it is worth, it doesn't work with 3DCoat build 4.9.37 Dx nor Gl.

Or something I do wrong, because 3d Coat freezes if I change to RenderMan and click on RenderPreview.

 

[AbnRanger]

14 hours ago, welcomerobots said:

For what it is worth, it doesn't work with 3DCoat build 4.9.37 Dx nor Gl.

Or something I do wrong, because 3d Coat freezes if I change to RenderMan and click on RenderPreview.

 

I should have clarified. 4.9.05 was the last build before they did a TON of refactoring work, which has subsequently caused a lot of issues. It also included some changes in the Render room, and Renderman support has apparently taken a back seat to work done on the new render engine that should be part of 3DCoat 2020, when released. Feel free to contact support and ask about Renderman support being re-established. It does have it's benefits, even if it is quite limited.

My point was that if someone wants to use Renderman, now, try using build 4.9.05, in the mean time.

[preecher]

i just tried it in new v 4.9.57 and renderman works again for now in this version, but there is no box for the alpha so it only renders with the environment map.

Edited August 22, 2020 by preecher

[KolmD]

I have the non-commercial free version of Renderman installed and it seems to be working in 3DCoat. 

There is a minor problem though, when I try to render a character brought in from Character Creator 4. The whole character is rendered in the UV Room using 3DCoat Hardware as Render Engine under Tool Options. If I switch to Renderman as Render Engine in the drop-down menu, it also renders the whole character. However, if I click Render Preview, then a separate Renderman-window opens, but only 1 part of the character is rendered, for example the boots or a necktie. How do I select all the parts of the character so that the whole character is rendered in the Renderman-window?

[AbnRanger]

On 11/27/2022 at 11:42 PM, KolmD said:

I have the non-commercial free version of Renderman installed and it seems to be working in 3DCoat. 

There is a minor problem though, when I try to render a character brought in from Character Creator 4. The whole character is rendered in the UV Room using 3DCoat Hardware as Render Engine under Tool Options. If I switch to Renderman as Render Engine in the drop-down menu, it also renders the whole character. However, if I click Render Preview, then a separate Renderman-window opens, but only 1 part of the character is rendered, for example the boots or a necktie. How do I select all the parts of the character so that the whole character is rendered in the Renderman-window?

I don't know why, but the Renderman integration only renders one UV set, so if a person has a model with more than one UV set, it won't render them all. I reported this multiple times to Andrew, and for a few years now, but it has gone ignored every time. If other people report this, maybe it will get noticed and the attention it needs. Renderman is too good of an asset to leave unattended like this. With that said, if you use Vertex Paint on a Sculpt Model, it will render it properly...however, really dense meshes will crash the Renderman Integration. So, don't try to throw a complex scene with 20+ million polys at it.

Other major limitations is the lack of a SHADOW CATCHING Shader/Material (in 3DCoat's render room)....Renderman integration currently does not allow Interactive updates....and users cannot render a turntable with the Renderman integration like they can with the default 3DCoat Render.