How to install malt/BEER
NPR render engine for Blender
What is malt and BEER?
From the official website:
Malt is a fully customizable real-time rendering framework for animation and illustration. It's aimed at artists who want more control over their workflow and/or their art style, with special care put into the needs of stylized non-photorealistic rendering. Designed as a community effort to expand the possibility space of 3d rendering, it provides graphics programmers and technical artist an enjoyable “shadertoy-like” workflow inside Blender, while still allowing to effortlessly share their work with non technical artists through Python and GLSL plugin Official website mal3d.com
Blender Extended Expressive Renderer (BEER) is a free and open source realtime non-photoreal (NPR) rendering engine. The main feature of BEER is the ability to extend the rendering capability from the ease of adding custom shaders to a customizable shader graph. Since NPR is a journey of endless styles which never settle, we need a render engine which will fulfill all the stylized needs. Light BWK, co-founder of BlenderNPR.org
It's a free and Open source real time render engine made with full focus on Non Photorealistic Rendering or Stylized rendering. It distinguish itself from other engine by being extremely customizable for the most skilled among us
Showcase:
Made by @/Renato3xl
Made by myself @axiasart
The only inconvenience with this render engine is the terrible terrible (needed to be said twice) lack of up to date tutorials. This shouldn't confuse people in thinking that this project is dying or unpopular. The latest release was on July 20th.
How to download and install malt/beer?
Downloading malt is pretty straightforward, on the github release page: https://github.com/bnpr/Malt/releases/tag/Release-latest
blender preference, enabled Malt render
Downloading and installing BEER is more complicated, first of course downloading it from github: https://github.com/bnpr/BEER
From the zip you will only need the BlenderBeer folder so you should extract is and put it anywhere.
You will also need to download Pygments which is found here: https://github.com/pygments/pygments/tree/master
You won't need the whole thing, once you download the zip, extract the pygments folder only.
Now that we have all the ingredients we can start cooking.
First you will need a script folder, put it where you keep your blender files. Then in this script folder add two folders modules and addons.
Next, you move the pygments folder in the modules folder and the BlenderBeer folder in the addons folder.
