[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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