Setup Blender 4 to work with OpenColorIO-Config-ACES 2.0.0 (Release)
The second release candidate for the new OCIOv2 configs are available.
Here is the announcement on ACESCentral.com.
I want to test the new config in Blender in the same way I did in the past with the OCIO V1 configs. The instructions can be found on the previous page and also here in a shortened version:
- Download the OpenColorIO-Config-ACES 2.0.0 from this link:
- github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO-Config-ACES/releases/tag/v2.0.0
- This time the download contains nine .ocio config files:
- cg-config-v2.0.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.1.ocio
- cg-config-v2.0.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.2.ocio
- cg-config-v2.1.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.3.ocio
- reference-config-v2.0.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.1.ocio
- reference-config-v2.0.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.2.ocio
- reference-config-v2.1.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.3.ocio
- studio-config-v2.0.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.1.ocio
- studio-config-v2.0.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.2.ocio
- studio-config-v2.1.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.3.ocio
- Place the config in your user folder or on a server location.
- On macOS I use Automator to create an App called “Blender_4_OCIOv2”. In this app I use a shell script to set the OCIO environment variable and start Blender.
- I am used to have all the IDTs and ODTs in one config, so I am testing out again the studio-config.
MAC “Automator” script
export OCIO=/Users/daniel/MEDIA/OCIO/OpenColorIO-Config-ACES-2.0.0/studio-config-v2.0.0_aces-v1.3_ocio-v2.2.ocio
cd /Applications/Blender/blender.app/Contents/MacOS/
./blender
Blender starts now with the new config. Happy Blending…