Pixar Renderman's 'it' display in Solaris?

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Im not able to get this working. Anyone has a guess?

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Do you mean using the USD Render ROP to send images to “it”? This is not possible because batch rendering from Solaris is all done through the “husk” process, which is a renderer-agnostic wrapper around a minimal hydra framework. It is husk that actually writes the images to disk, and because husk is a Houdini component, not a prman component, it doesn't know anything about “it”.
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Ah males sense. Thanks
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Not having “it” or some sort of frame buffer to render to currently makes it difficult to compare render settings / times, render region to figure out sampling settings, etc when working in LOPs. Are there plans to support Houdini's Render View w/ LOPs or will those features come to the LOPs viewport?
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Not having “it” or some sort of frame buffer to render to currently makes it difficult to compare render settings / times, render region to figure out sampling settings, etc when working in LOPs. Are there plans to support Houdini's Render View w/ LOPs or will those features come to the LOPs viewport?

A new version of the Render View is planned for LOPs. For now, mplay can be used as a frame buffer when rendering with the usd_render or karma nodes. The viewer can also save snapshots of the current state of the ipr render to mplay/to disk.
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Awesome, thanks for the update we'll just render to disk and compare that way in the meantime.
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Hi! Any update on this? I've been trying to work with renderman 24 and solaris and not having IT makes a big difference .
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Hi! Any update on this? I've been trying to work with renderman 24 and solaris and not having IT makes a big difference .
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Yes, 18.5 has a render gallery that works as a framebuffer. I doubt 'it' will ever be an option with Solaris.
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It used to be possible to "proto_install" a Renderman framebuffer and Mantra would write to it, displaying stuff in 'it' and 'ip'. Is this kind of thing no longer possible?
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