Welcome to the Render Toolbox (Version 2)
NOTE, November 5, 2012. This is the page for RenderToolbox version 2. We are no longer developing or supporting this version. There is now a RenderToolbox3 which we are working on going forward. Please see https://github.com/DavidBrainard/RenderToolbox3/wiki. We are leaving the version 2 page here for now.
Basic User Documentation
- Introduction to the RenderToolbox
- Installation for Mac OS/X - download, install and test the Render Toolbox under Mac OS/X.
- Installation for Linux - download, install and test the Render Toolbox under Linux.
- Description of the examples.
- Exporting scenes from Maya to PBRT and Radiance formats.
- Group exporting objects from Maya
- How to use radiance_direct and pbrt_orignal to render scenes right from radiance or pbrt files. This allows you to bypass Maya but still specify material properties and object/light spectra.
- How to specify parameters to BatchRender
Auxillary Documentation
This documentation is outdated, but may be useful if you're looking at the code to BatchRender.
- How to use Render_BatchRender.
- File locations in the RenderToolbox distribution.
- Description of PBRT_batchRender, our modified version of Pharr and Humphrey's PBRT in PBRT_batchRender.
- How to compile and use plugins in PBRT and PBRT_batchRender
- Matlab-based sphere renderer
