Public Domain Implementation of Renderman

[Roger]

This came up in one of the last Live Answer Times, it turns out there is actually a public domain implementation of the Renderman standard:

 

http://gman-toolkit.sourceforge.net/

 

 

I would imagine that some fiddling would be needed to get it going.

[Rodney]

I'm pretty sure that project hasn't been updated since the early 2000s.

Edit: Looks like 2001 from the documentation.

The last update to SourceForge appears to be 2013-02-19.

 

This may be what the RIB plugin for A:M was based on but... not sure.

 

Pixar did recently (earlier this year) release their non-commericial Renderman.

That reportedly has been ported to Blender and such.

I rendered Rabbit (exported as OBJ as I recall) using the command line of the non-commericial release so it's definitely possible.

[nemyax]

This project is GPL-licensed, meaning very definitely not public domain. So it's just another open-source RenderMan, of which there have been a few (BMRT, Aqsis, Pixie and others). They are all dead, but none as long dead as this one.

[Roger]

This project is GPL-licensed, meaning very definitely not public domain. So it's just another open-source RenderMan, of which there have been a few (BMRT, Aqsis, Pixie and others). They are all dead, but none as long dead as this one.

 

Sorry guess I should have dug a little deeper. I had remembered BMRT which was free for hobbyist use but BMRT has been dead for ages too.