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 datablocks across the wire.

Installation

1. Download lastest release here.
2. Install last_version.zip from your addon preferences

Usage

See how to section.

Current development statut

Currently, not all datablock are supported for replication over the wire. The following list summarizes the status for each ones.

Name	Statut	Comment
action	❌	WIP
armature	❌	WIP
camera	✅
collection	✅
curve	✅	Not tested
gpencil	✅
image	❗	Not stable yet
mesh	✅
material	✅
metaball	❌
object	✅
scene	✅
world	✅

Performance issues

Since this addon is writen in pure python for a prototyping purpose, perfomance could be better from all perspective. Soon I will start to port the multi-user addon concept to a blender branch.

Dependencies

Dependencies	Version	Needed
ZeroMQ	latest	yes
msgpack	latest	yes
PyYAML	latest	yes
JsonDiff	latest	yes

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://gitlab.com/yourname/yourproject/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Licencing

See licence