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The animation and notes on this page explain how custom shaders written in the RenderMan Shading Language can be animated using SLIM parameter expressions.

Animation
 

Shaders

Diffuse





Displacement

The beauty of the renderman plug-in is that all the controls that you give the shader in code are loaded automatically, and allow direct easy access to the variables within your shader. Above you can see the controls within the attribute editor and the variables match up to the code.