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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi <span
        style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Prayaag,<br>
        answers inline.<br>
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      Am 21.05.2015 um 20:54 schrieb Prayaag Kasundra:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Hi
            all, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">I
            have been asking few question in #BlenderCoders IRC which I
            earlier thought would be right forum for asking. But it
            seems this Cycles mailing list would be the right place. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">We
            are integrating Standalone cycles with our 3D design
            application. We are able to generate basic XML from our
            application which contains camera, meshes/vertices, etc. But
            we are running into problem in shaders/materials.  Although
            we can generate needed XML for it from our application, we
            don’t  know what XML config is required for some of shader
            nodes (When referring to nodes available in blender
            integrate cycles). </span></p>
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    Cool, great to see Cycles being used in various environments. :) <br>
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            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">I
            have following question. It would be great if someone can
            answer them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt
                &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">    </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Which
            material/shader node aren’t supported by XML API at all ?
             ETA on support for any of them? (Basically want to know
            which nodes might take months to arrive in XML APIs)</span></p>
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    As far as I know, all nodes are wrapped in the XML API. There are
    some settings missing I guess (integrator..), but the nodes should
    be complete. If not, this can be fixed easily. Just tell us if
    something doesn't work. <br>
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          style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt
                &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">    </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">How
            do we define uv config in XML for &lt;image_texture&gt; node
            to work ? </span></p>
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    UV Coordinates support is not supported in XML yet I think, have to
    double check.<br>
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style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt
                &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">    </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">We
            require bump node badly . Is this supported ?</span></p>
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    Bump Node is indeed missing in the API, will fix today.<br>
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            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">I
            know this is too personal request. But please provide little
            help in XML api. We are using cycles in serious product. I
            am not ace coder and can't understand cycles source code so
            can't promise to contribute to it. But we will certainly
            contribute in creating wiki and spreading word out and
            contributing and into getting Cycles standalone used by lot
            more people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:black">Prayaag</span></p>
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    Best regards,<br>
    Thomas<br>
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