[Bf-committers] Render API Refactor

[Harry Strange]

Hi all,

I posted this on the Blender.org forums but haven't had any response so 
I thought I'd post the question here as well :)

I was at the last Blender conference and remember Ton talking about the 
possibility of "opening up" the blender rendering API. Now presumably 
this would be a massive task. By allowing different render engines to be 
set you're also allowing support for different material 
settings/textures/lighting/etc. So it's not just the rendering aspect 
that's affected.

My question is this: Is anyone working on this? Is this even planned for 
the future? I think it'd be a great advance for blender but obviously 
not a task to be taken on lightly!!!

Any info on the current state of affairs or how one could help on such a 
large project would be much appreciated,

Harry

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