Blender Rendering Engine Options

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1. lox_federico

   10 March 2006 at 12:35

   Next version of Kerkythea is coming soon with new features like HDRI support, scripting, batch render, network render, shader SDK and more.

   A brand new Python exporter is coming too, and this one will beat them all (I’m not saying this only because I am developing it… LOL).

   One thing is sure, Kerkythea is the fastest of the five listed by Eugene.

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2. Simon

   10 March 2006 at 12:43

   cool…some things to play with at the weekend! I knew already 2 of the five listed render engines…

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3. Vassilios Boucer

   10 March 2006 at 16:16

   I think you can use also Vidro Global Illumination Renderer (Japanese)!
   English Version also available for Download!
   Follow this ….in Elysiun Forum:
   http://www.elysiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61807&sid=d4af08454721c93352fe3b12843a9db1

   SeeYa

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4. etr9j

   10 March 2006 at 16:30

   I took a look at Vidro and it definately might be nice. I’ve tried to use it, but I found it a bit complicated to use with Blender. From the post:

   “Export from Blender as OBJ. (rotate the object in blender -90 degrees on the X axis, so it shows up properly oriented in Vidro. Also the scene file doesn’t support rotation on object (only scaling and location), so you need to set your rotation in Blender too, before export…”

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5. Vassilios Boucer

   10 March 2006 at 16:51

   etr9j
   -Yes you are Right!…i found it also Complicated to use with Blender…about rotation and so…but its Great!
   If it has better support or Development for Blender…the Problem is ofcourse Japanese!

   SeeYa

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6. AkhIL

   11 March 2006 at 00:43

   You are forgot another renderman compatible renderers such as Aqsis and Pixie.
   I am alredy work with Pixie with my own exporter. I think after optimization and gui rewriting I’ll make some tutorials.

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7. etr9j

   11 March 2006 at 02:21

   Is your exported posted somewhere? I would love to try it!

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8. Rob Walker

   11 March 2006 at 03:43

   I second that. Pixie is a very impressive Renderman-compliant renderer (it has many of the features of PRMan) and is GPL’d, so you don’t have to worry about “non-commercial use only” clauses, etc. The combination of Blender and a decent way to export materials, geometry, and animation to Pixie would be a good, free, cinema-quality solution. I like Blender’s renderer, and it keeps getting better with each new version, but it can’t currently match Renderman shaders. I’m hoping that the new node system and plans for using Python to program shaders will change all that in the future, though.

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9. bart

   11 March 2006 at 14:23

   Well, what do you know? Blender.es has translated this entire article into Spanish ;-) http://www.blender.es/2006/03/nuevos-motores-de-render-para-blender.php

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10. Yorik

    11 March 2006 at 20:38

    I think one could also put Toxic in the list ( http://www.toxicengine.org ) and its blender exporter ( http://www.toxicx.toxicengine.org ). I’m not sure if toxic is being much worked on these days, but still worth a try.

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11. Ray

    13 March 2006 at 08:22

    So, what about Yaffray? Is it dead?

    I posted a bug report several months ago, and have had no reply. On top of that, I see no activity either. There are a bunch of things (mainly related to textures and lights) that don’t translate correctly from Blender to Yafray, too.

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12. etr9j

    13 March 2006 at 15:30

    YafRay isn’t dead… it just has a slow development cycle.

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13. Alex

    13 March 2006 at 21:11

    Will Blender support other external renderers the way it does Yafray? These other projects deserve a first-citizenship status as much as Yafray–this is OSS, after all.

    Think about it. An open, advertised (in the blender site) and well-documented render API would only be fair where OSS is concerned, it would generate lots of new stuff for blender (with the side effect of publicity) and it would give users a few more real rendering options (let’s be realistic. An export script for animations?)

    If there IS an open rendering API, then I stand corrected, but if you need to memorize the blender codebase before you can write an external renderer, then I stand by my observation.

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14. madcello

    17 March 2007 at 00:18

    Afaik, Kerkythea supports multi-thread. WHen you press “start render” button (running guy), the window that appears have “Threads” as the last parameter.

    What a list you collect in here! :)

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15. Vitos

    5 October 2009 at 09:05

    Just for the records, Kerkythea runs also on OS X, not just Win. an Linux.

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16. Themafia

    11 November 2009 at 15:58

    A great list of free renderers is at http://www.studiobolaris.com

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17. Lupe Cassion

    20 September 2010 at 21:45

    Was actually doing a search and came across this website. Must say that this information is what I was searching for! Keep writing more. I will be following your articles

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18. Nellie Schleicher

    28 June 2011 at 14:13

    I want to change my home page to another page with wordpress, is it possible?.

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19. Nick

    16 June 2012 at 05:01

    Um, what is elysiun?

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    1. Bart Veldhuizen

       16 June 2012 at 06:33

       It was the predecessor of BlenderArtists. This is an article from 2006.

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20. youbache

    31 January 2014 at 00:18

    thanks !
    there is also a list here too for more : http://www.tip-day.com/top-render-engines-for-blender/

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