Comparison with Taichi_blend's tina renderer

[shankarsivarajan]

There's another addon that also has a Taichi renderer. Have you compared it to yours?

[bsavery]

Yes. It appears it just runs some Taichi sims INSIDE of blender's python. It's not actually rendering Blender Data.

I.e so it won't actually render a blender scene.

[shankarsivarajan]

You're mistaken. The addon does allow you to run taichi simulations on Blender's python and use Blender as merely an interactive 3D display, and that's all I used it for, but it includes a render engine as well.

[bsavery]

Can you load an existing blender scene (example the bmw scene) and just render it? That didn't seem to be the case for me. If you can prove me wrong I would like to see it!

[shankarsivarajan]

It only works with Principled BSDF shader, so I can't do the BMW scene, but here's Suzanne:

Incidentally, I had to uninstall the version of taichi I installed through pip before it would work. It comes with its own (outdated) version 0.7.21.

[bsavery]

Interesting. It might interesting as a further project to merge that code to allow faster interactive renders

[bsavery]

Thinking a bit more it would be a really cool (and big) project to do a full scalable renderer that could do fast rasterization (like the above) and path tracing for final renders. And this could turn into the basis for that, but like I said it would be a big project and I have a day job ;)

[shankarsivarajan]

Yeah, that's ambitious. All I was hoping for was an easy (well, in Python) way to create custom render passes.

[bsavery]

What do you mean exactly that you're trying to do?

[shankarsivarajan]

I have several half-baked ideas regarding NPR stylization.