New API
After developing effects for a few weeks with the API of v0.3.x, it became clear that some changes were needed.
Problems
The
pv.Cache
API is hard to use.Unable to access C++ utility functions from external add-ons.
Render Jobs are weird and difficult to use
No good way of rendering a chunk of frames (this will be useful for multicore export).
Solutions
The effects should not exist in the folder
pvkernel/addons
. They should be in their own folder, but may be copied to pvkernel/addons` when building the wheel.Instead of render jobs, we will have props and operators under the namespace
render
. These will handle the rendering.In each release,
pvutils.hpp
file is provided. This is the header for utility functions.