| Setting up Mitsuba and RenderMan for Visions of Chaos |
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| Mitsuba Renderer is created by Wendel Jakob and free to use. |
| RenderMan is Pixar's rendering engine they used for such movies as Finding Dory etc. They now provide a free Non-Commercial version. |
| Note: you do not have to have both Mitsuba and RenderMan installed. If you only want to use Mitsuba then you can skip downloading and installing RenderMan. If you only want one of them then I recommend Mitsuba as it renders faster than RenderMan. |
| Visions of Chaos is now capable of using Mitsuba and RenderMan to render 3D output of the following modes; |
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3D Ant Automata 3D Cyclic Cellular Automata 3D Cellular Automata 3D Hodgepodge Machine 3D Voxel Automata Terrain 3D Diffusion-Limited Aggregation 4D Cellular Automata Cube Divider |
| This page has instructions for setting up Visions of Chaos to use Mitsuba and RenderMan. |
| Mitsuba |
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| Mitsuba will be downloaded automatically the first time you try and use it as a rendering engine. No manual steps are required.. |
| Download RenderMan |
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| Download the Non-Commercial RenderMan from here. You will need to register a free user account. No other 3D software is required. Only the stand-alone RenderMan engine is needed. |
| Install RenderMan |
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| Install RenderMan accepting all the defaults. You do not have to install any of the optional plugins and ignore any message about missing 3D apps if you do not have Maya installed. |
| Once the install finishes, reboot. |
| Point Visions of Chaos to RenderMan |
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| In any of the modes that support RenderMan output, click the Options button once RenderMan is selected, ie |
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| Click the Select button and select the directory that contains the RenderMan prman.exe file |
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| You are now ready to use RenderMan as the Visions of Chaos rendering engine. |