Essential Guide to RenderMan® Shading Plugin Development Understanding Bxdfs
Understand the fundamentals of Bxdf plugins for RenderMan® 21+, both the technical details and API architecture. The main goal of the book is to enable technical artists, hobbyists, and students in using the noncommercial (NCR), free RenderMan® edition. RenderMan® is an industry standard for renderi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA
Apress
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Overview, Brief Contextual History, and Pixar's Non-Commercial RenderMan
- Chapter 2: What RenderMan Plugins Are Made Of: C++ Language and Shared Object Files
- Chapter 3: Radiometry and Bi-Directional Scattering Functions
- Chapter 4: Monte Carlo integration and Global Integrators
- Chapter 5: The RenderMan (Rix) API
- Chapter 6: Canonical Scattering Regimes for Bxdf
- Chapter 7: Developing and Debugging Bxdf
- Chapter 8: PDF Normalization, Sampling, and Anisotropic Bxdf
- Conclusion