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

1. Download latest release multi_user.zip.
2. Run blender as administrator (dependencies installation).
3. 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.

Troubleshooting

See the troubleshooting guide for tips on the most common issues.

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	✔️
camera	✔️
collection	✔️
gpencil	✔️
image	✔️
mesh	✔️
material	✔️
node_groups	✔️	Material & Geometry only
geometry nodes	✔️
metaball	✔️
object	✔️
texts	✔️
scene	✔️
world	✔️
volumes	✔️
lightprobes	✔️
physics	✔️
curve	❗	Nurbs surfaces not supported
textures	❗	Supported for modifiers/materials/geo nodes only
armature	❗	Not stable
particles	❗	The cache isn't syncing.
speakers	❗	Partial
vse	❗	Mask and Clip not supported yet
libraries	❗	Partial
nla	❌
texts	❌	Planned
compositing	❌	Planned

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.

Feel free to join the discord server to chat, seek help and contribute.

Licensing

See license