Hello, dear Taichi-Blend users, here's an important note on version 0.0.7:
As Taichi-Blend goes further in development, I find it become increasingly hard to keep the renderer addon (ptina and tina) and the simulation addon (meltblend and others) distributed together with a relatively low cost.
So, from today on, they will be considered as 'sub-addons', they can be enabled or disabled in different Blender scenes, by visiting Taichi Addons panel in scene properties (see image below). Hopefully this walkaround would allows us to add more sub-addons in different fields in future.
Also, as you see from above, I've added the Taichi Worker panel, that allows you to tweak the Taichi ti.init arguments to prevent Taichi-Blend from crash. For example, increasing memory GB / fraction or disable unified memory / block-local storage. (In fact, on my machine I have to disable both unified memory & block-local storage, and limit memory GB < 2 GB to make things work...)
Also, after querying many users in our QQ group, I suprisingly found that almost all people are using Blender with Python 3.7, no matter on win, osx or linux. So this version I'll only release the Python 3.7, if you find your Blender Python version other than 3.7 and make Taichi-Blend failed to work on your environment, please inform me by join our QQ group: 1124405621, thanks in advance! I'll again upload other versions carefully if this happens.
PTina - a path tracer based on Taichi, has been added to Taichi-Blend now.
It features Disney BSDF, multi-importance sampling, and linear BVH ray tracing acceleration structure, make it comparable to the Blender-bundled renderer Cycles.
Related video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1oK4y1S7jb/
UPDATE: Downgraded sourceinspect to v0.0.4 to fix Taichi crash.