[Bf-committers] Summer of Code Idea -- Renderman Integration

[Ramon Carlos Ruiz]

well . . . all render exporters are waiting for the api developing but
in the mean time you can take a closer look to the yafray exporter . .
. that is what a lot of us are doing and for the example. I understand
the problem of the Catmull Clark you can do for example a fake
modifier that will indicate how the exporter will behave

http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a116/RCRuiz/MentalRay/Test/?action=view&current=catmull-clark.jpg

Regards
Carlos

On 3/21/07, Hannu Parviainen <hannu at astro.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>
> I'm using the object data directly since I'm aiming to export different
> types of objects as different Renderman primitives: meshes as
> subdivisionsurfaces, pointspolygons, points, or points and curves; NURBS
> as patches; curves as curves; metaobjects as blobbies; etc. I'm also
> hoping to add support for (Delayed)ReadArchives and procedural objects.
>
> Another reason is that I'm still familiarizing myself with Blender source.
> I'm using Renderman mainly for scientific visualization (tho I'm hoping to
> do something more artistic as well... someday...), and want a good and
> free GUI for things I'm currently doing mostly with scripts and
> self-written code. I've used blender now and then for the last ~8 years,
> and lately started to like it more and more. Renderman integration
> seemed a good idea to get to know the insides of Blender, as well as to
> allow the export to my renderers-of-choise at the same time.
>
> So... No problem with sounding discouraging. I'm learning, and it's better
> to find out the things that could and should be done in a better way now,
> when even more major changes are still quite easy.
>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Alexander Ewering wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> --
> Hannu Parviainen
> hannu at astro.helsinki.fi
>
> Observatory
> University of Helsinki
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