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Installation

If you purchased floating licenses, you must install the license server first. Please skip ahead to the floating license installation section before installing RenderMan for Maya.

Double-click on the RenderMan for Maya .pkg file to invoke the installer. The installer will take you through the installation process step-by-step.

By default, the software is installed in /Applications/Pixar/RenderMan_for_Mayaversion-2.0. Maya finds the plugin there via a symlink to the RenderMan_for_Maya.module file. The installer places the symlink in the user's Library/Preferences/Autodesk/maya/version/modules directory. If you wish to intall the software in a location other than the default, you will need to update that symlink.

The Alfred Maitre d'

Although the Alfred maitre d' is configured by the installer in Windows versions of RenderMan Studio, the Macintosh installers require the maitre d' to be configured manually. This can be done one of two ways:

• Via the alfred.ini:
  1. If you have not already, create a user-specific alfred.ini file, and place it in a directory specified by your RMS_SCRIPT_PATHS environment variable.
  2. Add the following line to the aforementioned alfred.ini:

     	set alfConfig(maitredHost) { hostname } 

     where “hostname” is the name of your maitre d'.
• Via LicenseSetup.app:
  1. Start LicenseSetup.app (by default, it is located in $RMSTREE/bin).
  2. Your licensing should have been set up by the installer, so you can bypass the Licensing tab. Click on the Maitre-d tab.
  3. Enter the hostname for your maitre d' in the “Maitre-d Server” field.

If you are running your Alfred maitre d' on a Macintosh, the maitre d' service can be started one of two ways:

1. Via a Terminal window, by running alfred with the -maitre_d flag. The alfred executable is located by default in $RMSTREE/bin/alfred.app/Contents/bin. It should not be run as root, since it does not require special permissions.
2. Via the Preferences menu of RenderMan.app, or by running LicenseSetup.app (as above). Click on the Maitre-d tab and start or stop the Maitre-d Service via the button there. The service is started as “nobody” and will be added to your Startup items, so it will restart after a reboot.

Licensing

As part of the installation process a licensing application will be invoked. It will ask you for an “Entitlement Serial Number”, and your Forum login and password. Enter the information in the appropriate fields (if you use a proxy server, your proxy information should be added as hose:port, e.g. foo.mydomain.com:8080) and click on the Get License button. The application will contact Pixar's servers and download your license to the etc subdirectory of your RenderMan for Maya installation. Once it is done, quit the licensing application and the installer will run to completion.

And you're all set.

Additional Licensing Information

• Updating a License

  Obtaining a new or updated license is simply a matter of running LicenseApp by double-clicking on it in the etc subdirectory of your RenderMan for Maya installation. By default, this location is:

  	/Applications/Pixar/RenderMan_for_Maya/etc
  

  The program will contact Pixar and download your license to the correct location.

• Floating Licenses

  Floating licenses are keyed to a specific machine designated as your license server. If you have purchased floating licenses, you must download the License Server software from the Pixar downloads section. Note, this is a download separate from the RenderMan for Maya download via the online store. The License Server download package for Macintosh OS X is Pixar_License-la_5.0.tgz, which unzips to expose the installer, Pixar_License-la_5.0.pkg.

  1. Double-click on the Pixar_License-la_5.0.pkg file to invoke the installer. This must be done on the machine that you intend to use as your license server. The installer will take you through the installation process, step-by-step.
  2. Near the end of the installation, the licensing application, LicenseApp, will be invoked. It will ask you for an “Entitlement Serial Number”, and your Forum login and password. Enter the information in the appropriate fields (if you use a proxy server, your proxy information should be added as hose:port, e.g. foo.mydomain.com:8080) and click on the Get License button.
  3. The application will contact Pixar's servers and download your license to the appropriate location. Once that is finished, quit LicenseApp and the license server installer will run to completion.

  Please note, your initial license will be timed to expire in approximately 30 days. At that time you can run the LicenseApp program again to get your permanent license.

  Now, when you install the RenderMan for Maya software on your artists' machines, you will follow the same steps as for a regular installation, including entering the “Entitlement Serial Number” and your Forum login and password when LicenseApp asks for them. The license file that is downloaded will point to the machine where you installed the license server, automatically.

  Once the installation is completed, you will need to start the license server. The license server is started by a shell script, located in the license-5.0 directory — /Applications/Pixar/license-5.0/startlm.sh is the default location, executed via a Terminal window. There are two scripts, one for starting the license service and one for stopping it. Open a Terminal window, cd to to the license-5.0 directory, and type:

  	./startPixarLicenseServer.sh
  

  to start the license service. The license server can be stopped using the stopPixarLicenseServer.tcl script, or from your Activity Monitor.

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