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.

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
ZeroMQ	latest	yes
JsonDiff	latest	yes

Contributing

See contributing section of the documentation.

Licensing

See license