We just released the first version of the appleseed development kit, based on appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-12, for Visual Studio 2010 on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.

Devkits allow to embed appleseed into a C++ application, for example to build a tight integration of appleseed into an authoring/modeling application.

appleseed now supports normal mapping.

Here is a quick animation rendered with the upcoming appleseed 1.1.0 alpha-13 to illustrate the effect of normal mapping (together with image-based lighting and camera motion blur) on the Killeroo model:

We just released Blenderseed 1.1.6 for Blender 2.62 and Blender 2.63. This is a minor release fixing compatibility with BMesh, the new mesh format introduced in Blender 2.63. Read more...