Can't get photorealistic rendering working

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From: Shane G. Artis
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 22:52

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Hi, I posted about a week ago that I couldn't get the RenderMan
renderer to work on my NeXT except by running it from the command
line.  This means that I can't (for example) use Appsoft Perspective
(tm) to create sample photorealistic pictures by messaging the
renderer from that program.  Can anyone tell my how to fix this?  I
got messages from others that they also were having trouble, but no
assistance.

I installed most of 3.0 from floppies, lacking a CD-ROM, so I'm sure
the problem crept in somewhere in that process.  I tried to patch up
the netinfo database to include /locations/renderes, giving localhost
as the value (I have a standalone machine), but to no avail.  There
don't seem to be any messages printed in the console or
/private/adm/messages files either.  When I run RenderManager or
Perspective I get little pop-up panels telling me that they can't find
a renderer.

Anyone who has some advice would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

Shane

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