At this point in time it is not known exactly when this will be added but development is supposedly in the works according to one of the Blender devs. What is more important though is the Render API, the one thing that many have been waiting for years to come to light. While an interface is only the nice presentation of the underlying code, this interface has truly changed from the Blender we all have been used to over the past 10 years. If anyone has downloaded the Alpha release you will notice that the interface has gone through a massive transformation. With Blender 2.50 on the horizon things are taking a turn.
Regardless when it gets done, it will get done, some way, some how. While the production is slow, things are starting to pick up and we are chugging away, hoping that by next years SIGGRAPH we will have something to present.
#Renderman blender driver
This project helped in the development of Aqsis, with the multilayer OpenEXR display driver, as well as RIB Mosaic, with the addition of these EXR driver presets. The tools we use and developed had also been used for research, in the form of RenderAnts, a GPU based Renderman visualization tool.Ģ009 was also the starting point in which "Project Widow" began, something that we wish would have been completed by now but due to the complexity and just the fact that this has not been done before using these tools, production is still in progress. As mentioned in the previous post, some already have, we applaud them and encourage them, cheering them on because the more people that use these tools that are not directly involved in the development of Mosaic, Blender, Aqsis or Pixie then that means that we as a community have at least helped steer others in that direction. However even today this is still in it's infancy and we all have a ways to go before we see more start ups using these tools to develop their own animations.
Not to say that the previous year was bad, not at all, in fact that year was a step towards the right direction. It has only been in the past 2 years things have really picked up and only this past year that our efforts are taken seriously and not "Yet Another Project". While this website is only one effort to bring a community together, the idea and practice of exporting Blender scenes to Renderman RIB files has been around for at least 7 years. Considering that Aqsis is one of 3 external rendering examples featured on the Blender website, I think the efforts done by everyone past and present have started to come to light. This has stood the test of time and criticism, has pushed development in other areas, not to mention more people are becoming aware and using these tools for their own needs. Why is it so different than any other year? Well Blender to Renderman has become a valid project this year, at least we like to think so. We want to wish all the best of times and safe travels! This post is a long time coming, considering that there has never been a holiday related post here before but this year is different.
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