Cannot Install LuisaRenderPy

[Yzhang367]

Trying Genesis has really excited me and the greate integrated functions do help a lot in simulation and RL. What made me a little frustrated was that LuisaRender could not run. As a beginner in ray tracing render, I genuinely want to try the LuisaRender in Genesis.

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13980HX
GPU: GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop
Memory: 16GB
OS: Ubuntu24.04

I followed the doc step by step. Everything went well until this step:

cd genesis/ext/LuisaRender
cmake -S . -B build -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D PYTHON_VERSIONS=3.9 -D LUISA_COMPUTE_DOWNLOAD_NVCOMP=ON # remember to check python version
cmake --build build -j $(nproc)

Then warning messages as follows came out:
1.

CMake Warning at src/compute/scripts/validate_options.cmake:70 (message):
  The DirectX backend is not available.  The DirectX backend will be
  disabled.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/compute/scripts/validate_options.cmake:80 (report_feature_not_available)
  src/compute/CMakeLists.txt:53 (include)


CMake Warning at src/compute/scripts/validate_options.cmake:70 (message):
  The Metal backend is not available.  The Metal backend will be disabled.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  src/compute/scripts/validate_options.cmake:91 (report_feature_not_available)
  src/compute/CMakeLists.txt:53 (include)

But this message might only matter on Windows or Macs.
2.

-- Found CUDAToolkit: /home/yzhang/.conda/envs/genesis/targets/x86_64-linux/include;/home/yzhang/.conda/envs/genesis/include (found version "12.6.20") 
CMake Warning at src/compute/src/backends/cuda/CMakeLists.txt:149 (message):
  NVTT not found! Please install NVTT from
  https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-exporter and set the
  CMake NVTT_DIR variable to the folder containing nvtt*.dll (e.g.
  C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA Texture Tools) .


CMake Warning at src/compute/src/backends/cuda/CMakeLists.txt:156 (message):
  NVTT_DIR didn't contain an NVTT shared library of the form nvtt*.dll or
  libnvtt.so.*! Is NVTT_DIR set correctly? NVTT_DIR was


CMake Error at src/apps/CMakeLists.txt:12 (find_package):
  By not providing "Findpybind11.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "pybind11",
  but CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "pybind11" with any
  of the following names:

    pybind11Config.cmake
    pybind11-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "pybind11" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "pybind11_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If
  "pybind11" provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
  been installed.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

I have tried a two ways to install NVTT but all failed. First, I downloaded the .tar.gz file from the official website but it didn't have a CMakeList.txt. Then I tried to download https://github.com/castano/nvidia-texture-tools and perform cmake install, but I came across errors might relate to CUDA.

I wonder if there was substitution for NVTT or if LuisaRender could run without NVTT.

[zswang666]

NVTT is warning. The main error is pybind11. Please check FAQ.

pip install -e ".[render]"

or

pip install "pybind11[global]"