小淳 寫:thanks for your reply
actually, what is Renderman, is it related to Maya?? or
is it only programming??
RenderMan is a "Render Engine + Surfacing (shader + light and so on) Compiler + Network Render system" developed by Pixar. You can say it is a "Plugins" or "Add on" software for Alias Maya.... The Pixar's programmer gave up the built in rendering engine and surfacing component of Maya and develope a new system to handle these jobs. They just use the maya to "draw"......that's why when a user submit a render job to the renderman from maya, the software need to generate a RIB/ICF file (you can say these files are thema of renderman) before it start rendering.......In renderman most of the scripts, RIB, shader, Network components etc, are able to alter or re-develope by using a kind of script simular to C/C++......