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Idea #9: Shape keys computing on GPU or threaded

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Written by Loolarge the 16 Aug 10 at 23:51. Category: Rigging. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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I noticed that shape keys can be quite a performance hog in blender when having many. I saw the awesome rigger Chad Vernon made a plugin for maya that computes blend shapes on the GPU, with a speed improvement of 32x.

http://www.chadvernon.com/blog/
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joshwedlake wrote on the 24 Aug 10 at 19:50
prefer threaded for those of us with old non opencl stuff!


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