Dear Blender developers, Ton has provided me guidance to contact you via this mailing list, so I partially reproduce my e-mail I first sent to him.
I present Blend4Web (https://www.blend4web.com/) - an open source (GPL v3) Blender-based 3D web framework. I'm happy to inform you that our team has grown enough to assign two of our programmers to Blender development. We hope that our work will allow the wonderful Blender community to render models and scenes interactively on web pages independently on any web services. As Blend4Web is a real-time renderer, it appears that it should rely mostly on Blender viewport features. For this reason we are looking for ways to improve the viewport's functionality and performance. We have started to submit patches (https://developer.blender.org/search/query/vudNATDz_e4c/#R). Some of them are just bug fixes, other fill the gaps between the Blender viewport and other Blender renderers such as Cycles and internal renderer. During our work we are also discovering and reporting other issues that are not directly related to the viewport. So far two patches have been accepted and merged (https://developer.blender.org/D781 and https://developer.blender.org/D842). Thanks Brecht, Antony! And one patch was also respected by Sergei who had implemented the fix (https://developer.blender.org/D859). Other patches are still waiting for review. Our programmers (Valentin Dontsov https://developer.blender.org/p/valentin_b4w/ and Alexander Romanov https://developer.blender.org/p/a.romanov/) are just starting to participate in Blender development. Our team needs some coordination and feedback from you in order to effectively plan and implement various features and improvements. I fully understand that you guys are very busy with current development. However I believe that our developers can help the Blender project a lot given they are provided with proper assistance. We are not planning to implement any Blend4Web-specific features, but only those that will be useful for every Blender user who need to create the content for real-time rendering. After speaking with Ton and after some internal discussions we got the idea on how our work could be set up. What if we present you a list of features and bug fixes we would like to see in Blender, and you discuss and select those of them to which a green light could be given? That would prevent us from implementing the features that are not aligned to your roadmap. Looking forward for your feedback! Regards, Yuri -- Yuri Kovelenov Development Lead y...@blend4web.com +7 495 676 3660 Blend4Web - an open source framework for creating 3D web apps http://www.blend4web.com/en/ Triumph LLC | Moscow, Russian Federation Ковеленов Юрий Александрович Руководитель отдела разработки y...@blend4web.com +7 (495) 676-36-60 Blend4Web - открытая платформа для создания 3D веб-приложений http://www.blend4web.com/ru/ ООО Триумф | Москва, Россия _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
