<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the links and thread on this. I've got a quick question.<div><br></div><div>Would it be conceivable to farm out an external process to write sims (as opposed to frames) to disk using the existing render api as it stands or would I have to start altering code within Blender to facilitate that?</div>
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Hi All !!<br>
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I am writing a point based rendering engine to render point clouds. I want<br>
to plug it into Blender so that i take advantage of Blender's existing<br>
functionality.<br>
I am writing my code in C++.<br>
I have already downloaded and built the blender source code.<br>
Can anyone help me how to proceed with integrating my code with Blender?<br>
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Hi Vishesh,<br>
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Hsehsiv Atpug <<br>
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> I have already downloaded and built the blender source code.<br>
> Can anyone help me how to proceed with integrating my code with Blender?<br>
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What you want to achieve requires a lot of work... I'm not exactly the<br>
right guy to answer your question, but if I were to make my own rendering<br>
engine, I would first just clone Cycles with a new name. After that I would<br>
strip the cloned code to the bare minimum (the communication of the scene<br>
to the engine) and do the plumbing to my rendering code.<br>
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The code for Cycles is in the /intern/cycles directory, copy it to e.g.<br>
/intern/myrenderer, and then proceed to replace all the required<br>
identifiers. You will have to include the new module in the build system,<br>
and probably make some other changes elsewhere in order for Blender to show<br>
your engine as an alternative, but I have never done it before, so I can't<br>
help you with that.<br>
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Cheers, and good luck.<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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Hi,<br>
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Here [1] is a minimalist doc about about to interact with Blender. But, as<br>
already said, reading how Cycles integration into Blender works is the best<br>
way to go.<br>
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[1] : <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/Render/RenderEngineAPI" target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/Render/RenderEngineAPI</a><br>
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Daniel Monteiro Basso <<br>
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> Hi Vishesh,<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Hsehsiv Atpug <<br>
> <a href="mailto:multidimentionalvariable@gmail.com" target="_blank">multidimentionalvariable@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I have already downloaded and built the blender source code.<br>
>> Can anyone help me how to proceed with integrating my code with Blender?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> What you want to achieve requires a lot of work... I'm not exactly the<br>
> right guy to answer your question, but if I were to make my own rendering<br>
> engine, I would first just clone Cycles with a new name. After that I would<br>
> strip the cloned code to the bare minimum (the communication of the scene<br>
> to the engine) and do the plumbing to my rendering code.<br>
><br>
> The code for Cycles is in the /intern/cycles directory, copy it to e.g.<br>
> /intern/myrenderer, and then proceed to replace all the required<br>
> identifiers. You will have to include the new module in the build system,<br>
> and probably make some other changes elsewhere in order for Blender to show<br>
> your engine as an alternative, but I have never done it before, so I can't<br>
> help you with that.<br>
><br>
> Cheers, and good luck.<br>
><br>
> Daniel<br>
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