Essential Guide to RenderMan® Shading Plugin Development: Understanding Bxdfs

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B. E. HollisterEssential Guide to RenderMan® Shading Plugin Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9392-8_7

7. Developing and Debugging Bxdf

Brad E. Hollister¹  

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Carson, CA, USA

 

This chapter explains how Bxdf plugins may be developed. We cover the use of a visual debugger front end, along with some of the facilities of RenderMan (e.g., PxrValidateBxdf).¹ We also discuss the notion of dynamically loaded (shared objects) libraries.

Thus, in this chapter, we go into the practicalities of setting up a development environment. One aspect of using C++, rather than RSL, is that we can take full advantage of system-level development. These allow for halting ...