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I got into Renderman in the late nineties thanks to Larry Gritz's Renderman compliant renderer BMRT, which was free for non-commercial use. I believe it was use

I got into Renderman in the late nineties thanks to Larry Gritz's Renderman compliant renderer BMRT, which was free for non-commercial use. I believe it was used for a number of Hollywood productions alongside PRMan, since it could raytrace and do global illumination. At that time I was working in a supermarket and running a 16meg p166. Quite a distance from the world of high end graphics! I created models in a beta version of Rhino I got from a Computer Arts coverdisk, which I exported in Renderman's text based RIB format. I would then hand edit these files to add shaders I had written. Back then I was convinced that shaders were the future, and that they would eventually make their way into games. I ended up using it to create artwork for some early mobile games I released back in 2003. (http://richardjdare.com/blog/games/ http://richardjdare.com/blog/games/) - I would love to get back into hacking on Renderman again...

Keyframe 13y ago
You still can, 3Delight is a REYES and raytracer and is free for dual core use. http://www.3delight.com/en/index.php http://www.3delight.com/en/index.php I learned a lot from BMRT 'back in the day' until I got full time access to a PRMan license for myself. Shame about how it turned out for both BMRT and later Exluna with that patent squabble with Pixar. Nvidia bought Exluna (spiritual successor to BMRT) and hushed Pixar down, briefly turned it into Gelato product and that's the last I've heard about it. I even wrote a brief starting tutorial into RSL about 12 years ago here: http://www.vga.hr/resources/tutorials/3d/rsl/index.htm http://www.vga.hr/resources/tutorials/3d/rsl/index.htm It's still up since it still get lots of visits (mainly from wikipedia these days). It was intended for my co-workers at the time but it gained quite a popularity with studios around the world for some reason back then. I take pride in the fact that there are still sources up for PRMan, BMRT and Exluna Entropy up there. :)

Keyframe 13y ago

You still can, 3Delight is a REYES and raytracer and is free for dual core use. http://www.3delight.com/en/index.php http://www.3delight.com/en/index.php I learned a lot from BMRT 'back in the day' until I got full time access to a PRMan license for myself. Shame about how it turned out for both BMRT and later Exluna with that patent squabble with Pixar. Nvidia bought Exluna (spiritual successor to BMRT) and hushed Pixar down, briefly turned it into Gelato product and that's the last I've heard about it. I even wrote a brief starting tutorial into RSL about 12 years ago here: http://www.vga.hr/resources/tutorials/3d/rsl/index.htm http://www.vga.hr/resources/tutorials/3d/rsl/index.htm It's still up since it still get lots of visits (mainly from wikipedia these days). It was intended for my co-workers at the time but it gained quite a popularity with studios around the world for some reason back then. I take pride in the fact that there are still sources up for PRMan, BMRT and Exluna Entropy up there. :)