Setup Blender 4.x to work with OpenColorIO-Config-ACES 2.0.0 (Release)
Blender 5.0 has been released with big feature changes in color management and the native support of some of the most used external OCIO configs. Please read the blog post Big Blender 5.0 color management changes.
The second release candidate for the new OCIOv2 configs is 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 for ACES 1.3 from this link:
- https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/OpenColorIO-Config-ACES/releases
- 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 having all the IDTs and ODTs in one config, so I am testing out the studio-config again.
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…