rib-mode

1. Overview
2. Download
3. Installation
4. Wishlist
5. References
6. News
7. Bugs

Overview

rib-mode is intended to be an (X)Emacs plugin in order to add syntax highlighting and indentation automatically to the text editing of RenderMan® Interface Bytestream (RIB) files that are in ASCII. The plugin code is in Lisp which is interpreted by the Emacs environment upon application startup.

I was unable to find such a plugin on the web, yet I do know that those using RenderMan tools also use Emacs editors. For example, there is a plugin for the RenderMan Shading Language (very similar to the C language), but none for the scene description interface known as RIB (a pascal-like language). RIB is intended to be human readable and editable to allow for the highest level of control of your scenes without resorting to C programming.

Features

• Syntax highlighting.
• Indentation.

Download

rib-mode.el
CVS instructions

Installation

1. If you haven't done so already, from the Xemacs menubar choose Options->Save Options to Init File. This will create a customization file used below.
2. Move rib-mode.el into /home/xyz/.xemacs (in a Linux environment).
3. Add this line to your /home/xyz/.xemacs/custom.el file:

   (load-library '"/home/xyz/.xemacs/rib-mode")
   

Wishlist (Submit a Feature Request)

1. Key-map for different renderers.
2. Block (un)commenting.

References

1. Borton, S.A., "An Emacs language mode creation tutorial"
2. Cortes, R., The RenderMan® Academy
3. Pixar, RenderMan® Interface Specification

News

• 20060526 Project page published.

Bugs (Submit a Bug)

1. N/A