Problem summary
Nuke crashes when Nuke is set to use RenderMan Pro Server 21
Customer reported version
nuke.10.5v1
Customer reported platform
10.12
Steps to reproduce
1) Install RenderMan 21.X
2) Set the environment variables need for Nuke
3) Open Nuke
4) Create a PRenderMan Node and View it
5) Attach a Sphere node to the obj input of the PRenderMan, Nuke will crash
It is suspected as Reyes renderer has been removed in RenderMan 21.0
https://rmanwiki.pixar.com/display/REN/RenderMan+21.0#RenderMan21.0-ReyesRenderingisRemoved
Workaround
Use RenderMan 20.X or earlier
Reproduced by support
This has been reproduced on:
NukeX 10.5v1 - MacOSX 10.12
NukeX 10.0v5 - MacOSX 10.12 - Windows 10
NukeX 9.0v1 - MacOSX 10.12
Expected behaviour
For Nuke not to crash when using unsupported plugins
Actual behaviour
Nuke crashed