3.4 KiB
MULTI-USER for blender
Enable real-time collaborative workflow inside blender
⚠️ Under development, use it at your own risks. Currently tested on Windows platform. ⚠️
This tool aims to allow multiple users to work on the same scene over the network. Based on a Clients / Server architecture, the data-oriented replication schema replicate blender data-blocks across the wire.
Quick installation
- Download latest release multi_user.zip.
- Run blender as administrator (dependencies installation).
- Install last_version.zip from your addon preferences.
Dependencies will be automatically added to your blender python during installation.
Usage
See the documentation for details.
Current development status
Currently, not all data-block are supported for replication over the wire. The following list summarizes the status for each ones.
| Name | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| action | ❗ | Not stable |
| armature | ❗ | Not stable |
| camera | ✔️ | |
| collection | ✔️ | |
| curve | ✔️ | Nurbs surface don't load correctly |
| gpencil | ✔️ | |
| image | ❗ | Not stable yet |
| mesh | ✔️ | |
| material | ✔️ | |
| metaball | ✔️ | |
| object | ✔️ | |
| scene | ✔️ | |
| world | ✔️ | |
| lightprobes | ✔️ | |
| particles | ❌ | On-going |
| speakers | ❌ | Planned |
| vse | ❌ | Planned |
| physics | ❌ | Planned |
| libraries | ❗ | Partial |
Performance issues
Since this addon is written in pure python for a research purpose, performances could be better from all perspective. I'm working on it.
Dependencies
| Dependencies | Version | Needed |
|---|---|---|
| Replication | latest | yes |
Contributing
See contributing section of the documentation.
Licensing
See license