rguetzkow

5 ms·

1.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
I am not a lawyer and the opinions expressed herein are my own. The argument is not that the API itself is protected by copyright. This wouldn't work anyway, as APIs aren't protected by copyright under EU law. From my understandin
2.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
The comment above is more of an explanation of how this currently works in Blender and how one can approach the aforementioned challenge. I do agree that the Python API is often just a thin wrapper around the C/C++ code [0] and that th
3.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
From my experience script examples usually indicate what version they were made for and add-ons have to declare the minimum supported Blender version in their `bl_info`, which tells what API version it was implemented for. I know that at le
4.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
That is specific to operators (Blender's implementation of buttons) since they are closely tied to their use in the UI. They may expect a specific context which is checked by the operator's `poll()` function. The namespace the ope
5.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
Unless the example is from 2.79 and earlier it shouldn't take any or only minimal adjustments. There have been some API changes between versions since 2.81, but they usually wouldn't affect a lot of add-ons or are very easy to cha
6.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
I have never developed a plugin for Maya so I cannot compare the two, but this statement confuses me: > I was always amazed at Maya's basic architecture: Every UI action maps to a command that is run by the interpreter. That is pret
7.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
Do you intend to use the GPU for rendering with Cycles? This isn't possible with current versions of Blender on macOS as Nvidia has stopped development of the CUDA toolkit for macOS and Apple has deprecated the OpenCL compiler. Since C
8.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I assumed that your comment was about Blender given that you've commented on a post about it. I also assumed that the comment was directed at Blender because there have been plenty similar comments/questi
9.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
You need to hire the highly skilled Mike Newbon to design your reports.
10.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
This isn't Blender's fault, Nvidia discontinued the development of the CUDA Toolkit for macOS. Version 10.2. was the last version released for macOS [0]. > CUDA 10.2 (Toolkit and NVIDIA driver) is the last release to support ma
11.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
I think there are quite a lot more developers contributing to the project than those employed by the Foundation or supported by developer grants [0]. However, the complex changes on the roadmap of Blender's development are planned and
12.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
They do in their FAQ: https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#can-i-use-gimp-commer...
13.
by rguetzkow 5y ago
The Blender Foundation is quite upfront about this though to prevent misunderstandings. It's directly addressed on the page that explains the license: https://www.blender.org/about/license/
14.
by rguetzkow 6y ago
You can watch (almost) all past talks of previous conferences on Blender's YouTube channel [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/BlenderFoundation/playlists
15.
by rguetzkow 6y ago
I fully agree, it's both a fantastic software and community. I would also recommend it to everybody who is interested in contributing to open source software.
16.
by rguetzkow 6y ago
This year is a bit unusual and secretive to provide a bit of a surprise. The past conferences had a proper schedule, see e.g. the one from last year[0]. [0] https://conference.blender.org/2019/schedule/
17.
by rguetzkow 6y ago
You can also download it directly from Blender's website [1] or build it yourself [2], if you're interested in that. [1] https://www.blender.org/download/ [2] https://wiki.blender.org/wiki&#x2
18.
by rguetzkow 6y ago
Vulkan support is being worked on, the current progress can be seen here [1]. [1] https://developer.blender.org/T68990
19.
by rguetzkow 6y ago
Thank you for reporting bugs and helping improve Blender! Every AMD graphics card that is GCN first generation or later can be used for running Blender [1]. GCN second generation or later is required for GPU rendering [2]. Unfortunately the
20.
by rguetzkow 6y ago
More and more studios are starting to use Blender. For instance Tangent Animation used it for their movie "Next Gen" that is on Netflix.
21.
by rguetzkow 6y ago
The most common reasons for crashes are outdated graphics drivers with bugs and/or hardware below the minimum requirements [1]. If you think you've found a bug in Blender please report your issue on the bug tracker [2] ( Help >