[Bf-cycles] Starting Cycles integration

[Alvaro Castaneda]

Hi Lukas
this is great information thank you
will take a look at the source and try to figure it out

thank you

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Lukas Stockner <lukas.stockner at freenet.de>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm not sure how Houdini plugins work - I guess they're written in C++?
> You'll want to get rid of the XML step in between and link to Cycles
> directly.
>
> Cycles is basically split up into 4 "levels" (in the code: /blender/,
> /render/, /device/ and /kernel/ - all paths relative to the Cycles folder,
> which is intern/cycles/ in the Blender source)
> The first part is the Blender-specific glue logic, that's the one that you
> basically need to replicate for Houdini. The other three are independent of
> the underlying application, you can re-use those.
>
> So, my tips would be:
> - Set up a build environment where you can compile Cycles (without the
> /blender/ part) as a library and link it to your plugin.
> - Look at the Cycles API in /render/ (a good place to start is
> /render/session.h)
> - Look at how the Blender integration works - for setting up a Session and
> rendering, check /blender/blender_session.cpp and for syncing your data,
> check /blender/blender_sync.cpp
> - Write your own glue code that manages the Session and syncs the data
> from Houdini.
>
> Another example that you can check regarding how to call the "Cycles API"
> is the standalone renderer that you're probably using with XML files
> currently, it's in the /app/ folder.
>
> Am 31.01.2017 um 01:27 schrieb Alvaro Castaneda:
> > Hi Everyone
> > I'm sure this list is full of amazing intelligent people and my
> questions might be a little silly but I just have to ask.
> >
> > Any guidelines, tips or code I can look at for integrating Cycles into
> another app?
> >
> > I'm trying to make it work with Houdini, in houdini the way renderer
> integrations work is really similar to who the Renderman for Blender works,
> basically you have 2 apps talking to each other.
> >
> > right now I can write an XML from Houdini and launch Cycles and renders
> ok, the main thing I would like to implement is the interactivity part,
> making cycles live to changes from Houdini, any tips on how that is done?
> >
> > thank you for you help for this wannabe developer
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
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