"Dimitri Karamazov" <deserter...@danwin1210.me> writes: > OpenVDB would be very nice to have, it only supports CPU rendering. > But I will be wary of OpenSubdiv since it seems to supports only modern GPUs. > I'm not sure if it will work on OpenBSD. Did you test them both?
yes. OpenSubdiv will actually run single-threaded I think. it has several (optional) parallel backends, including CUDA, OpenCL, OpenMP, and TBB. obviously the only one relevant for OpenBSD is TBB, and I successfully built and tested with that. > https://archive.blender.org/wiki/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.76/OpenSubdiv/ > OpenSubdiv requires decent video card and latest video drivers installed. > Recommended video cards are AMD and NVidia, few years old max. Not sure why they say that, as mentioned above OpenSubdiv will actually run with no backend. but OpenSubdiv really is quite necessary in blender 2.81+ as the entire subdivision backend seems to have been moved to opensubdiv, there is no native blender subsurf code anymore. so any sort of subdivision needs opensubdiv, it's not really an "add-on" thing like it was in pre 2.8x, even though you can build blender without it. Cheers, Andrea
