RenderMan 23 Available

The latest update brings significant improvements to production pipelines with robust USD support, featuring new possibilities for look development workflows, including the latest innovations for Houdini Solaris.

The team improved artist workflows adding new interactive editing of resolution and secondary passes. Also, the update features new statistical adaptive sampling metrics for more predictability and higher quality.

Other Features:

• USD Hydra Rendering – Render directly to Hydra via hdPrman.
• OpenVDB Updated - New support for OpenVDB 5.2.
• VFX Reference Platform 2018 - All plugins are now updated to the new standard, including gcc6.3 and C++14.
• Shading Call Access – Path Traced SSS is now available via the Rix interfaces
• Artist Tools – Version 23 adds more artist-focused workflow improvements in RenderMan plugins
• Stability and Power – improvements to RenderMan core technology, compiler platforms, and extensions to components

You can learn more about the latest version here.