[Bf-committers] Summer of Code Idea -- Renderman Integration
Campbell Barton
cbarton at metavr.com
Wed Mar 21 16:06:03 CET 2007
Just talking on IRC and this project really needs a render API to be
done properly, This is somthing planned but better worked on by somebody
experienced with the blender source.
Best pick a different project from the ideas page
Alexander Ewering wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Hannu Parviainen wrote:
>
>> Currently the export of meshes, camera and lamps is working
>
> Sorry to sound discouraging, but if you say "export of meshes is working",
> there seems to be an inherently wrong approach here.
>
> Blender already creates a single set of render data for *any* kind of
> object
> (no matter if Mesh, Curve, NURBS etc.), so if you coded your exporter to
> only use mesh data directly, you will have 5-fold maintenance, which
> doesn't
> make a lot of sense.
>
> Wonder why you didn't use renderfaces in your exporter?
>
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