What is Cycles?
Cycles is a ray tracing renderer focused on interactivity and ease of use, while still supporting many production features.
Contacts
- Cycles Discourse forum.
- Cycles mailing list, and also the Blender Developers list.
- IRC channel #cycles and #blendercoders on irc.freenode.net
- Bug reports and patches are to be filed against Cycles project
Documentation
Manuals for both Artists and Developers are available.
Development
Cycles is officially under the Blender Foundation umbrella, and so is developed on developer.blender.org. Source code is available either as standalone repository or as bundled into Blender sources.
To clone Cycles together with blender please consult BF Blender project.
To clone Cycles source from stadalone repository as read-only use:
git clone git://git.blender.org/cycles.git
To clone as read-write (needs ssh key):
git clone git@git.blender.org:cycles.git
Browse code
Online browse of sources is available for:
Module Owners: @Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) @Thomas Dinges (dingto) @Sergey Sharybin (sergey)
Developer Members: @Lukas Stockner (lukasstockner97) @Mai Lavelle (maiself) @Dalai Felinto (dfelinto) @Stefan Werner (swerner) @Alexander Gavrilov (angavrilov) @Martijn Berger (juicyfruit) @Nathan Letwory (jesterking)
User Members: @Matt Heimlich (m9105826) @Marco G (marcog)