Alexander Weide shared a new guide that will help you get started with Renderman for Houdini.

This video will help you get started with Renderman 23 for Houdini 18 showing and exapaining necessary basics. The artist also discussed some workarounds and fixes for you to have the best experience with Renderman 23 in Houdini 18.

You will learn about Renderman's utility manager, setting up the needed Environment Variables with Linux, pre-divide workaround for Ngons, and more. The artist showed how you can speed up texture stream to Renderman, explained basic rendering setup and other crucial points.

The artist has also released the full scene on Gumroad. Also, you can get a free scene file with 10k textures.