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blenderseed is a Blender-to-appleseed exporter for Blender 2.71 and later.
blenderseed includes support for the following features of appleseed:
- Pinhole, thin lens (supports physically correct depth of field), and spherical camera models
- Camera, transformation and deformation motion blur
- Particle / instance motion blur
- Instancing (dupliverts / duplifaces / "emitter" and "hair" type object and group particle systems)
- BSDF layered materials
- Normal / bump mapping
- Alpha mapping
- Mesh lights
- Point, directional, and sun lights
- Spot lights (supports textures)
- Physical sun/sky
- Gradient, constant, mirror ball map and latitude-longitude map environment models
blenderseed also supports
- Node-based material creation (with Blender's node editor)
- Hair path particle systems exported as geometry
- Export to appleseed.studio or rendering within Blender's image editor
- Selective geometry export (for faster re-export and re-rendering of scenes)
- Material preview rendering