GafferCycles Support

[aditiapratama]

Summary

Right now Gaffer Windows only utilize Arnold Renderer, even appleseed support is bit limited. I found out that GafferCycles is being actively develop, and would like to know how to integrate to current windows distribution.

User story

What

Integrate Cycles or GafferCycles to current windows build.

Why

To incorporate Gaffer in Blender Pipeline

Implementation notes

https://github.com/boberfly/GafferCycles/tree/experimental

[boberfly]

Hey @aditiapratama

I plan to make a build on my end once I stabilise it on Linux and deem it feature-complete. No ETA but lets just say Blender 2.82 and Gaffer 0.56.0.0 are about to be released this month so it is pretty good timing...

[aditiapratama]

hi @boberfly, thank you so much for the news, Since Im on windows, I'd like learn to contribute as well.

[boberfly]

Need to fix bugs still, "coming soon!"

[aditiapratama]

awesome @boberfly ...will test it right away, anyway for windows automatic build, I think this guy did amazing work with openusd for windows, and IINM it's using appveyor
https://github.com/VictorYudin/saturn