Blender exporter question

[mchannemann]

Hello Users and Indigo team,

I wanted to know what elements of blender are supported by Indigo,
like hairs, particles, mesh objects, nurbs ect...
I could see good information on the material section which is encouraging, especially the codable shader elements (I am used to Renderman so nothing to alien for me )

Kind regards,
McHannemann

[Borgleader]

As far as I know particles are out of the question and I believe nurbs are as well but dougal2 who maintains the exporter would be best placed to answer you.

[dougal2]

NURBS are not available, mostly because they are not supported natively in Indigo.

Normal meshes should be well supported.

Hairs are not supported, again due to a lacking primitive in Indigo.

Certain particle systems will work, mostly for instancing/duplicating mesh objects. Actual infinitessimal particle objects are not supported.

I hope that answers your questions, I look forward to seeing some renders


Doug.