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Chaos Corona for Blender / Re: Material Preview in Viewport

« on: 2018-11-14, 23:42:54 »

Was it blocked by developers or something else?

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Chaos Corona for Blender / Re: Material Preview in Viewport

« on: 2018-11-14, 22:54:36 »

Will it be possible?

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Porting and API / Re: Why there won't be Corona for Blender...

« on: 2018-11-14, 22:51:15 »

Octane plugin is open source, that's why you get it working, but Octane Standalone, which is of course independent from your software, is not. That's why you get the plugin working (by the way, it doesn't work if you don't have the standalone).

I am pretty sure that the others, Indigo and Thea, have similar properties (either the plugin is open source, or something combined like Octane).

So there you have it.

Blender GPL license is your handbrake here.

Well, the Otoy's Blender version is open source. The Octane engine is not Open Source as it is sold as separate Server application that connects to that special version of Blender.
So there is possibility to use a commercial render engine in Blender that works as a local server application that sends back and forth the information to Blender.