[Bf-committers] Patch: Render API preview function

[Doug Hammond]

Hi Matt,

That sounds like a sensible idea, I think you might also need to pass the
pointer to the preview object as well so that the external renderer can
handle the different preview types.

Cheers,
Doug.


On 8 December 2010 05:46, Matt Ebb <matt at mke3.net> wrote:

> ( Re-posted from the patch tracker, since it'll be down soon )
>
> A while ago, Brecht added the do_preview flag for the render API, to
> allow external renderers to generate preview renders for the property
> editors (eg. materials). This was a good start, but it's not really
> enough - it just exposes blender's internal preview.blend scene to the
> render API, which often isn't very useful - it's heavily tailored to
> blender's internal renderer and most other renderers are better served
> by their own specific preview scenes that take advantage of that
> renderer's capabilities.
>
> This forces exporters to do all kinds of dodgy voodoo to replace the
> blender preview scene - checking for a scene name of 'preview' and
> trying to guess which is the active material being previewed by
> looking over object names in the preview scene file, which is not very
> robust.
>
> The attached patch provides an optional 'render_preview' function for
> exporters to implement, which gets called upon doing a preview render
> (rather than the normal 'render' function). This means that exporters
> know explicitly when a preview render is being called. Additionally,
> as well as the scene, it passes in a pointer to the material in
> question that's being previewed so you don't need to guess it. This
> makes it much easier to send the material properties to a custom
> preview scene for that render engine.
>
> patch: http://mke3.net/blender/devel/2.5/render_api_preview.txt
>
>
> https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=25092&group_id=9&atid=127
>
>
> cheers
>
> Matt
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