Blender 2.8: The addon has been ported to Blender 2.8! Cache performances have been improved in the latest version (3 times faster on average). Blender 2.79 version: download the 'skinselection1.90xx' file. Blender is a powerful development tool to create 3D images and animations, whose main advantage regarding other similar tools like 3D studio or Maya is that this is a completely free application. The program lets you model, render, texture, illuminate, animate and post-produce any kind of three-dimensional scenes.
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DavidBluecame released this Apr 9, 2020 · 11 commits to master since this release
YafaRay v3.4.1a (2020-04-09) for Blender 2.79:
- A few documentation changes to clarify bug reporting and Blender v2.79 release download
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YafaRay v3.4.1 (2020-04-08) for Blender 2.79:
- Changed documentation to state that any bug reporting and resolution will solely be done in the GitHub Project 'Issues' tab. Bugs in the old yafaray.org bugtracker will not be processed anymore.
[Blender Exporter + Core] - Added note about Blender-Exporter only working for Blender v2.7x versions.
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YafaRay v3.4.0 (2020-03-22) for Blender 2.79:
Note: don't mind the release date, the project has been mostly inactive for a long time, so only a few (although significant) changes since v3.3.0, but it was about time to give the last changes a proper release version number.
Feature changes/additions:
- Basic support for Image Sequences.
[Blender Exporter] - New per-material transparency bias for Shiny Diffuse. When there are objects with many transparent surfaces stacked close together (such as leaves in a tree) sometimes black artifacts appear if the ray reaches the maximum depth. This can be solved by increasing the maximum ray depth, but the render times increase. I've added two new parameters for the Shiny Diffuse material to try to achieve a 'trick', which is not realistic and may cause other artifacts but that should prevent the black areas without having to increase the maximum ray depth so much.
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Dependencies changes:
- IMPORTANT: Migration from Qt4 to Qt5 as Qt4 reached End of Life
[Core] - Dependency on meganz/mingw-std-threads made optional, because it's needed for old MinGW compilers but it causes conflicts with new MinGW compilers, so better to have it as an option in CMake (disabled by default)
[Core] - Compatibility fix for Python 3.8
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Bug fixes:
- VERY IMPORTANT: Fixed the infamous bug 'DAG zero.. not allowed to happen!' that caused all objects in Blender to be deleted. I want to thank the user 'pouar' for finding the problem and the solution for this! :-) More information: http://www.yafaray.org/node/819#comment-1921
[Blender Exporter] - Fixed Multiview rendering, that had been broken due to a Blender 2.79 API change
[Blender Exporter] - Mesh management: changes to make it compatible again with Blender versions prior to 2.78
[Blender Exporter] - RenderPasses rendering: changes to make it compatible again with Blender versions prior to 2.74.4
[Blender Exporter] - Minor fix for a warning 'rna_uiItemR: property not found: Camera.show_title_safe' that happened sometimes.
[Blender Exporter] - Fix - Min bounces, Russian Roulette minimum bounces jump in. Now saved into render settings.
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Hi everyone!
I've done a bit of work on adding some functionality to Prism that is unfortunately not really polished due to the very limited time that I'm able to work on it. After sitting on it for some time I decided to share it, no matter the super rough state of most of the things here.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11iTD6df6sU09CiNJ5Oc_Xz1nWQtW8wgL?usp=sharing
1. Support for the latest buildbot versions of Blender 2.79:
Since Blender 2.79 moved to Python 3.7, the Python 3.5 PySide2 module provided with Prism doesn't work with the latest builds. Here's a slightly old (from early November) Windows Blender 2.79 archive that has PySide2 and bs4 installed to it's internal Python dist which works without problems with Prism. I had to add one DLL - python3.dll (located in the same folder with the blender.exe), since the pip installed PySide2 depends on it and it was not installed by default with Blender. I would expect that these should work with a more recent build as well.
2. Syncing data from TACTIC to Prism:
I have found TACTIC to be a really good open-source replacement for production management apps like Shotgun or ftrack and since it has a good Python API it was pretty straightforward to create a script to sync the data from TACTIC to Prism. I have also fixed some small bugs in TACTIC and its VFX template (the updated one I did is called Vfx Simple Template) and set scripts so that it can be started separately as server and client, making it easier to use. I'm using a slightly older version (3.9v10), since I've found the 4.x branch to be somewhat buggy. The archive below is hard set to work from the C: drive (i.e. it should unpack to the C:TACTIC_3.9 folder). I've also included ffmpeg and djv view with TACTIC for easier thumbnail creation and review playback (and added corresponding scripts with the template).
After you create assets and/or shots and their corresponding tasks, you can run get_ticket.bat (put both the get_ticket and prismUpdateFromTactic files in the Prism folder) to create a persistent permission ticket for the selected user and TACTIC project. Then start prismUpdateFromTactic.bat and all the assets, sequences, shots and tasks will be synced to the currently active Prism project (currently it goes one way - from TACTIC to Prism).
3. Guerilla Render plugin for Prism
One thing that I found a bit lacking with the Prism app support was that it didn't include any scene assembly, management, lighting and rendering apps (think Katana). One app that is free (at least for single workstation use) and is really good for this purpose is Guerilla Render - http://www.guerillarender.com/
I created a very simple plugin that integrates Guerilla with Prism. It currently supports listing and working with Guerilla scenes in the Browser, saving into Prism from within Guerilla, updating to the shot frame range and bringing caches through the State Manager (though not really keeping track of the state).
The integration is a bit hard coded currently (I haven't touched the Prism_Guerilla_externalAccess_Functions.py file) and requires a bit of manual work (the .guerilla.conf file needs to be copied to the Windows user folder manually and it expects that Prism is installed in C:Prism and Python 2.7 in C:Python27).
Hope you find all these useful and interesting to play with. If you run into any issues or have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to let me know,
Goran Run macos on any pc.
Hi everyone!
I've done a bit of work on adding some functionality to Prism that is unfortunately not really polished due to the very limited time that I'm able to work on it. After sitting on it for some time I decided to share it, no matter the super rough state of most of the things here.
1. Support for the latest buildbot versions of Blender 2.79:
Since Blender 2.79 moved to Python 3.7, the Python 3.5 PySide2 module provided with Prism doesn't work with the latest builds. Here's a slightly old (from early November) Windows Blender 2.79 archive that has PySide2 and bs4 installed to it's internal Python dist which works without problems with Prism. I had to add one DLL - python3.dll (located in the same folder with the blender.exe), since the pip installed PySide2 depends on it and it was not installed by default with Blender. I would expect that these should work with a more recent build as well.
2. Syncing data from TACTIC to Prism:
I have found TACTIC to be a really good open-source replacement for production management apps like Shotgun or ftrack and since it has a good Python API it was pretty straightforward to create a script to sync the data from TACTIC to Prism. I have also fixed some small bugs in TACTIC and its VFX template (the updated one I did is called Vfx Simple Template) and set scripts so that it can be started separately as server and client, making it easier to use. I'm using a slightly older version (3.9v10), since I've found the 4.x branch to be somewhat buggy. The archive below is hard set to work from the C: drive (i.e. it should unpack to the C:TACTIC_3.9 folder). I've also included ffmpeg and djv view with TACTIC for easier thumbnail creation and review playback (and added corresponding scripts with the template).
After you create assets and/or shots and their corresponding tasks, you can run get_ticket.bat (put both the get_ticket and prismUpdateFromTactic files in the Prism folder) to create a persistent permission ticket for the selected user and TACTIC project. Then start prismUpdateFromTactic.bat and all the assets, sequences, shots and tasks will be synced to the currently active Prism project (currently it goes one way - from TACTIC to Prism).
3. Guerilla Render plugin for Prism
One thing that I found a bit lacking with the Prism app support was that it didn't include any scene assembly, management, lighting and rendering apps (think Katana). One app that is free (at least for single workstation use) and is really good for this purpose is Guerilla Render - http://www.guerillarender.com/
Audio studio for pc. I created a very simple plugin that integrates Guerilla with Prism. It currently supports listing and working with Guerilla scenes in the Browser, saving into Prism from within Guerilla, updating to the shot frame range and bringing caches through the State Manager (though not really keeping track of the state).
The integration is a bit hard coded currently (I haven't touched the Prism_Guerilla_externalAccess_Functions.py file) and requires a bit of manual work (the .guerilla.conf file needs to be copied to the Windows user folder manually and it expects that Prism is installed in C:Prism and Python 2.7 in C:Python27).
Hope you find all these useful and interesting to play with. If you run into any issues or have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to let me know,
Goran
New vst 2020. Hey Goran,
thanks again for your great contributions. I appreciate it very much.
I'm already using your provided Blender Python modules in the upcoming Prism release to add support for Blender 2.79 and 2.8.
I'll check out the other scripts in more detail soon and I'm sure it will be interesting for many people to test it too.
Keep up the development 🙂
Hey Goran,
thanks again for your great contributions. I appreciate it very much.
I'm already using your provided Blender Python modules in the upcoming Prism release to add support for Blender 2.79 and 2.8.
I'll check out the other scripts in more detail soon and I'm sure it will be interesting for many people to test it too.
Keep up the development 🙂
It's been a long time since I heard about tactic, but it would be interesting to see a branch for the prism.
It's been a long time since I heard about tactic, but it would be interesting to see a branch for the prism.
@gkocov I'm testing a little guerilla also works with pandora?
@gkocov I'm testing a little guerilla also works with pandora?
keep working on the integration with the guerrillas I am starting to use it
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keep working on the integration with the guerrillas I am starting to use it
Thanks for your interest and for looking into the Guerilla integration.
Pandora isn't supported, but you can check either Deadline or Coalition (a free render farm manager developed by the same team behind Guerilla) - https://github.com/MercenariesEngineering/coalition
Thanks for your interest and for looking into the Guerilla integration.
Pandora isn't supported, but you can check either Deadline or Coalition (a free render farm manager developed by the same team behind Guerilla) - https://github.com/MercenariesEngineering/coalition
Thank you very much for your answer. I'm reviewing it. by the way the guerilla prism plugin seems to not work well with the latest version
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Thank you very much for your answer. I'm reviewing it. by the way the guerilla prism plugin seems to not work well with the latest version
I did a small update around Dec 2019 in order for it to work with the newer Prism versions.
Try the following https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mV-LuZJALStsZjERsjGArA4ug6oV-hWa/view?usp=sharing (remove the old Guerilla integration plugin first and unpack the zip in PrismPluginsApps)
I did a small update around Dec 2019 in order for it to work with the newer Prism versions.
Try the following https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mV-LuZJALStsZjERsjGArA4ug6oV-hWa/view?usp=sharing (remove the old Guerilla integration plugin first and unpack the zip in PrismPluginsApps)
Thanks a lot ! and as for the integration which folder to target
Thanks a lot ! and as for the integration which folder to target
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The integration is hardcoded currently. You don't install it like the other plugins. The .guerilla.conf file needs to be copied to the Windows user folder manually and it expects that Prism is installed in C:Prism and Python in C:Python27. I also had some issues with Guerilla's local Python _ctypes.pyd and _socket.pyd files, so I had to remove them from the Guerilla Renderpython folder.
The integration is hardcoded currently. You don't install it like the other plugins. The .guerilla.conf file needs to be copied to the Windows user folder manually and it expects that Prism is installed in C:Prism and Python in C:Python27. I also had some issues with Guerilla's local Python _ctypes.pyd and _socket.pyd files, so I had to remove them from the Guerilla Renderpython folder.
