Now that we have media-gfx/alembic in the tree, I'd like to ask to add an alembic USE flag to add import / export support for alembic (.abc) files to blender. Blender supports this file format for at least since version 2.79, please see also https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.79/Alembic I managed to include this in my overlay and can prepare a PR if the change get's approved. I tested it by importing the Emily 2.1 scene file from the digitalhuman project (see http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/DigitalEmily2/).
Created attachment 548400 [details] ebuild for updated blender My current blender ebuild patched to add media-gfx/alembic support
Created attachment 579970 [details] blender-alembic.diff Diff of the ebuild w/ respect to the current blender-2.79b-r1.ebuild
Due to no response so far, I'm going to prepare a PR for this.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cca9b716491a91b496106a19df4e5f554b6a1717 commit cca9b716491a91b496106a19df4e5f554b6a1717 Author: Adrian Grigo <agrigo2001@yahoo.com.au> AuthorDate: 2020-08-22 01:08:55 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-24 13:41:55 +0000 media-gfx/blender: Version bump to 2.83.4 Blender 2.83.4 works with python 3.7. It may compile with 3.8, but blender only supports 3.7 officially as it follows the VFX Reference Platform to ensure that user add ons are not broken in the process. They plan to introduce 3.8 support in 2021. New features include a new interface, the realtime eevee renderer, and importing openvdb files created by other packages among others. Game engine and Blender Player were removed in 2.80. Bug fixes in this version are alembic support, upstream fixes for opencollada, requiring openjpeg:2 to avoid security issues, and mimeinfo cache is correctly updated. Where these issues remain in blender 2.79b, the bug is linked but should be closed only when blender 2.79b is removed. On my system the docs do not currently compile, and the polyfill2d test still fails like 2.79b. Blender 2.83 support for draco, embree, oidn, usd and openxr is not yet implemented pending development of ebuilds for these packages. Signed-off-by: Adrian Grigo <agrigo2001@yahoo.com.au> Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/667352 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/735590 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/718772 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/737388 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/689740 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.103, Repoman-2.3.23 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> media-gfx/blender/Manifest | 1 + media-gfx/blender/blender-2.83.4.ebuild | 316 +++++++++++++++++++++ .../blender/files/blender-fix-install-rules.patch | 16 -- media-gfx/blender/metadata.xml | 22 ++ 4 files changed, 339 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
Alembic is supported in blender 2.80+, and now that blender 2.79b is no longer in the tree this bug can be closed.
You're right Adrian, thanks for cleaning up!
