Why is Corona Blender exporter developed by community, not by us

[Zorian]

Where is the right place to write that Blender users would like to have a new exporter to the new Standalone format?

[Scope]

Is this relevant also regarding the Standalone version?
(the last post)
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=238.msg175976#msg175976

[maru]

Where is the right place to write that Blender users would like to have a new exporter to the new Standalone format?

Anywhere. :) Here is fine. But it doesn't change anything, as we are already very much aware of it.

Is this relevant also regarding the Standalone version?
(the last post)
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=238.msg175976#msg175976

If you mean Corona Standalone in general - no, we are still actively developing it.
If you mean Corona Standalone for Blender - yes, that post was written as a reply to the previous post.
BUT, check out this blog post: https://blog.corona-renderer.com/behind-the-scenes-what-now-after-corona-renderer-6/

The improved standalone format opens up the potential for it to be utilized with exporters from other platforms such as Blender (we are thinking about helping the development of the third-party open source Corona Exporter from Blender)

[Scope]

That's pretty great news! But does the "exporter approach" mean that the functionality will be limited? Or does it all depend on the skills of the people who develop the exporter? I wish it could be something like Octane or Redshift (in development) for Blender. Is anyone actively working on it now though, or should we be looking for some talented people? I wish I knew anything about coding...

[Zorian]

I think that we need to look for someone by ourselves. But I think that will not succeed. I would love to have Corona in Blender, but well...

[Naxos]

Hi there,

I'm surprised to see that some commercial render engine are available for Blender, and not Corona renderer :

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I thought it was not going to Blender because of the open source system, that makes sense, but how do other do ?
Especially vRay, same company now.

[TomG]

A pretty complex system; as best as I understand it, the render engine has to be a separate standalone item, then in Blender there is code to pass information back and forth out to this external version where the rendering etc. actually happens. This way the V-Ray core is not "inside" Blender, and only the code passing info back and forth has to end up open source. This level of complexity is why we have no plans to tackle Corona for Blender, it would simply consume too much time and slow down progress on the core functionality of Corona.

[Naxos]

Ok i see, thank you Tom