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chunky-dev / chunky

A path tracer to create realistic images of your Minecraft worlds.
https://chunky-dev.github.io/docs
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Allow export for rendering in other programs #480

Closed naikrovek closed 6 years ago

naikrovek commented 6 years ago

Suggestion

If you aren't going to support GPU path tracing anytime soon, would you consider supporting scene export so users can use a GPU accelerated path tracing renderer other than Chunky?

chland commented 6 years ago

If you want to use a different renderer you can always use Mineways to export a scene and import it into Blender, 3DS MAX, Maya or Cinema 4D,

naikrovek commented 6 years ago

I did not know that, thank you.

llbit commented 6 years ago

Part of the reason why it is not easy to export Chunky scenes to common 3D formats is because we use a nonstandard representation for many block models and custom code would need to be written for each of those custom block renderers to export them to standard triangular mesh data. If/when we migrate to using a fully block-model based renderer (which uses Minecraft resource packs to load all models) this could be done much easier.

naikrovek commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the responses, everyone. I'll close this because my (non-)issue is resolved.