Comments on: One to try: appleseed

By: Franz

Franz — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:46:19 +0000

CanadaDry: yes, it totally would Unfortunately we don’t have the time or resources to write exporters for all DCC apps. We’re already developing translators for Blender and Maya in-house. When it comes to developing exporters or translators for other apps, all we can do is provide help and support.

Cheers,
Franz

By: CanadaDry

CanadaDry — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:39:03 +0000

Franz a softimage xsi exporter would be nice

By: Franz

Franz — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:02:30 +0000

Hey Jim, thanks for the update.

Yeah the About page is badly out of date and needs a complete rewrite anyway. We’ll try to fix that soon.

Thanks for pointing out the discrepancies!

Cheers,
Franz

By: Jim Thacker

Jim Thacker — Tue, 08 May 2012 17:31:45 +0000

Thanks Franz – I’ll update the text above. I actually took the info about motion blur and the exporters from the ‘About’ page of the appleseed website, so you might need to update that too?

By: Franz

Franz — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:40:08 +0000

Oh, another thing I wanted to point out: we’re also developing a Maya-to-appleseed translator, Mayaseed. It’s written by Jonathan ‘Jon’ Topf, member of the appleseed team. At this point Mayaseed is actually much more advanced than Blenderseed. Check it out here: http://appleseedhq.net/blog/jon

Cheers,
Franz

By: Franz

Franz — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:36:12 +0000

Hi, Franz here, lead dev on appleseed.

Nice post! I just wanted to point out that, as of version 1.1.0 alpha-12, appleseed *does* support motion blur, specifically camera motion blur (with arbitrarily many steps) and more importantly full ray traced deformation motion blur with arbitrarily many steps. This is something very few (if any) open source renderer supports.

Cheers,
Franz