[Bf-committers] Blender Network Rendering in Erlang

[Toni Alatalo]

Campbell Barton kirjoitti:
> Though if you want a high level of integration (inspect blender data,
> use internal api calls) you'll need to have that part written in
> python. Doubt Erlang bindings would be accepted in trunk.
>   

The idea was to use the C foreign function interface (FFI) of Erlang to 
call Blender, not needing bindings.

Python has that too, ctypes from already py 2.3 times and in the 
standard library since 2.5. I don't know if anyone has tried using 
ctypes to call Blender internals without bindings. I don't know if/how 
it can work in the embedded context, all ctypes usage that have seen 
starts by loading a dll/so native library from a file to get a reference 
to it and start calling functions. And Blender is not a library so there 
isn't a dll/so. Perhaps there's some way though, haven't looked.

~Toni

> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 9:06 AM, rsaavedra at ono.com <rsaavedra at ono.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>  This is my first post to the list.
>>  I am interested in the
>> network rendering thing, so I've been following this thread with
>> interest.
>>
>>  Maybe you could test more nodes if you virtualize the
>> machine, for example with xen, virtualbox or vmware. This is valid as
>> long as you have enough RAM and you only want to test things related to
>> the nodes not to the speed gain.
>>  A virtual machine with small debian
>> install (netinstall) + Blender would be enough to do tons of test.
>>
>>
>>
>> ----Mensaje original----
>> De: theeth at yahoo.com
>> Fecha: 06/10/2009 4:24
>>
>> Para: "bf-blender developers"<bf-committers at blender.org>
>> Asunto: Re:
>> [Bf-committers] Blender Network Rendering in Erlang
>>
>> Hi Nicholas,
>>
>> ---
>> On Mon, 10/5/09, Nicholas Amorim <nicholas at montrealdevelopment.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> That's true, anyway, if some point in
>>> the future we need
>>>       
>> better solution,
>>     
>>> erlang stays as a great possibility. as I'm a python
>>>       
>>> developer. martin, do
>>> you need any help ?
>>>       
>> At this point, there
>> isn't that much hard things to do on the python side of things, aside
>> from polishing the web interface and the blender UI integration
>> (although if you want to help with that, that would be excellent too).
>> What I'd need most at this point are additions to the Blender/Python
>> api.
>>
>>     
>>> including I'll have 10 machines, so I can test extensively.
>>>       
>> That would be excellent. I'd be very interested in seeing how well the
>> master server behaves with a larger number of slaves (if it can keep up
>> or not) and how well the balancing algorithm works with such a number
>> of slaves and many jobs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
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