THE BRIDGE FROM MAYA® TO PIXAR'S RENDERMAN® 

• Pro features for added flexibility
• Handle scenes of the highest complexity
• Optimize workflow with custom solutions

Included with RenderMan Studio, RenderMan for Maya Pro™ is the premium version of RenderMan for Maya. RenderMan for Maya Pro provides the same seamless interface between Maya® and Pixar’s RenderMan that RenderMan for Maya provides. However, RenderMan for Maya Pro has additional power user features for sophisticated render pipelines. RenderMan for Maya Pro is the backbone of RenderMan Studio, providing a clean interface with uncompromised extensibility. It includes the same feature of RenderMan for Maya:

• EASE OF USE
  1. Seamless integration with Maya; nothing new to learn
  2. Software rendering of all Maya Particles
  3. Automatically render Maya Fur and Hair
  4. Render Maya Material networks, PaintFX, and much more!
        
• QUALITY
  1. World renown cinematic-quality imagery
  2. High quality anti-aliasing for minimal artifacts
      
• POWER
  1. Multithreading
  2. Incredibly fast 3D motion blur 
  3. Exceptionally fast displacements
  4. Fast and efficient fur and hair
  5. Robust secondary outputs for easy compositing
  6. Render enormous amounts of geometry
      
• FEATURES
  1. "Deep Shadow" technology
  2. Advanced subsurface scattering 
  3. Point based ambient occlusion and global illumination
  4. Fast HDRI and image based lighting effects
  5. Texture baking
  6. Camera effects, including bokeh and shutter timing
  7. Photon based caustics
  8. Render time CSG boolean operations
  9. Production statistics
  10. And more . . .

Questions? Check out the RenderMan for Maya FAQ

 
ADVANCED FEATURES

RenderMan for Maya Pro has additional features able to accommodate custom pipelines. The pro features provide additional capacity for the types of custom solutions required to harness the full power of Pixar's RenderMan. Some of the additional features include: 

• ADVANCED FEATURES
  1. 64 Bit Linux Support - As a premium solution, RenderMan for Maya Pro supports Linux in native 64 bit mode.
  2. RIB Out - With the ability to write 3D data, called RIB, RenderMan for Maya Pro offers new horizons for flexibility and programmability required for sophisticated render pipelines.
  3. RIB Archives - The ability to read RIB archives opens up new workflows, for both efficiency and creativity. 
  4. RIF Filters - Use filters to modify RIB files to build custom pipeline.
  5. RiProcedural Plugins - Extend the capabilities of the renderer or the modeler with custom DSO's and DSO Shade Ops, which can be used to create procedural geometry, feathers, and custom shaders ... for just a few examples.
  6. RI for MEL - Another Pro feature is the ability to insert RIB into the Maya scene using MEL scripts, providing almost unlimited flexibility for custom solutions.
  7. RSL Nodes in Hypershade - With the Pro version RSL templates make it much easier to author custom Maya Materials using the RenderMan Shading Language.
  8. Slim - For shader creation
  9. Alfred - For job dispatching
  10. "it" - For image management and compositing
         

 
PICK THE TOOL THAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU

RenderMan for Maya was designed with ease-of-use and affordability in mind, without sacrificing the most important features of RenderMan: speed, stability, and quality. For those who require the versatility of RIB in and out, the robust, highly programmable shading tools in Slim, and the dynamic capabilities of plug-in procedurals are encouraged to use our premium, high-end products: RenderMan Studio and RenderMan Pro Server.