How to enable external rendering engine? I've been using Blender for about a year now, and have never been successful at enabling any external rendering add-on. I end up with the message below whenever I attempt to do so. Do I need to the have actual, separate rendering engine installed before enabling the add-on?
Yes, all external renderers are separate applications to Blender. The addons are simply helper scripts to pass data back and forth between Blender and the app. You definitely need to have the renderer application installed on your computer to get it to work.