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Re: RIBs, RenderMan, and Textures

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From: John Soward
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:45
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Mike Amirault writes
-> 
->  I've been messing around with Renderman and RIB files for a couple
-> of days and need some help. I can pretty much get everything to work
-> except textures.  I've tried everything and can't get a simple texture
-> to display from a RIB file I created. I can use 3DReality and add a
-> texture fine, but I can't do it from my RIB file.
-> 
->  I've tried things like:
-> 
->  Surface "SD_Simple_tx" "txmap" "/NextLibrary/Textures/brick.tex"
->  Surface "texmap" "texname" "brick"
->  ...
-> 
->  Does anyone know how to do this?  Does anyone have any docs on the
-> RIB syntax?  I bought the RenderMan Companion book but that doesn't
-> really help. Also, does anyone know how to compile shader function 
-> source to a *.slo file?
->
	well, I can answer the last question....
	/usr/prman/sharder shadercode 
man shader for more info....
 
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