Aqsis
Submitted by Alison Findon on February 5, 2007 - 08:50
Free open source scanline Renderman clone.
Create Renderman files with Caedium Viz Export.
To automatically launch Aqsis to produce a image when you export a Renderman file ensure that:
- Aqsis is installed.
- The Renderman location preference in Caedium is correct by selecting File->Preferences and then in the Properties Panel select and set the Export->Renderman property to point to the Aqsis executable.
- The Aqsis 1.6.0 default executable installation location on Windows Vista and Windows 7 is:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Aqsis\bin\aqsis
- For parallel rendering on a cluster running Windows HPC Server 2008, first share the <aqsis-home> directory and then set the Renderman property to:
job submit /jobname:aqsis /name:aqsis /numprocessors:1 <aqsis-home>\bin\aqsis
- The Aqsis 1.6.0 default executable installation location on Windows Vista and Windows 7 is:
- [optional] To provide texture map support:
cd <tmp>
<aqsis-home>\bin\aqsl <caedium-home>\modules\vtrib\txtplastic.sl
copy|cp txtplastic.slx <asqis-home>\shaders\surface\.
- For Windows HPC Server 2008 and the Mac, replace every instance of the AQSISHOME variable in
<aqsis-home>\bin\aqsisrc
with the actual location, e.g., for Win HPC\\cray03\aqsis
, and for Mac/Applications/Aqsis.app