Renderman>Shader System
for Maya-renderman
level: intermediate -advanced
Here we're going to load the MAYA to RenderMan (MTOR) plug-in for MAYA and render out a quick scene. Load up MAYA and let's get going!!
Keep in mind - RENDERMAN HAS ITS OWN SHADER SYSTEM!!! Don't think your pretty MAYA scene with all of its fancy shader trees and nifty texture maps is going to port over to RM and look even better... it won't. More than likely it will look like a beat up Ford from North Pole - Primer Grey and full of Bond-O. RenderMan has a shader system that, while similar to MAYA and often able to interpret MAYA shaders, does not directly translate.
Now the PLUG-IN window should look like the one below, with the MTOR.SO file visible and loaded (as of the time of this web page, the auto-load feature will not work due to the limited number of RenderMan licences... actually we've got only one, so if you have any problems loading RenderMan at this time, make sure nobody else got it before you) so we are cleared to render out whatever scene you've got.
