<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>Le 1 juin 07 à 00:39, Bob Wenzlaff (AB8TD) a écrit :</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">The question arises if we are pushing data to the renderer or<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">allowing it to pull data.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I think the latter is a little more<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">flexible.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I haven't given this a lot of thought, but I came up with<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">a limited illustrative example.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>pushing datas can do as well, if the converter ask</DIV><DIV>the renderer what it support. depending of datas, can be an advantage.</DIV><DIV>You can think for example of instances objects (copies which differ only by</DIV><DIV>location/rotations).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Where your approach can shine, is that the renderer could ask for </DIV><DIV>datas in a specific volume or things like that.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Pushing or pulling (and converting) all datas can also be slow on a </DIV><DIV>frame change where only few object moved.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now the renderer will also need to get some settings from blender</DIV><DIV>send back progress, so communication is probably both way too.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Lukep</DIV></BODY></HTML>