This tool aims to allow multiple users to work on the same scene over the network. Based on a Clients / Server architecture, the data-oriented replication schema replicate blender data-blocks across the wire.

Quick installation

Download latest release multi_user.zip.
Run blender as administrator (dependencies installation).
Install last_version.zip from your addon preferences.

Dependencies will be automatically added to your blender python during installation.

Usage

See the documentation for details.

Current development status

Currently, not all data-block are supported for replication over the wire. The following list summarizes the status for each ones.

Name	Status	Comment
action	❗	Not stable
armature	❗	Not stable
camera	✔️
collection	✔️
curve	✔️	Nurbs surface don't load correctly
gpencil	✔️
image	❗	Not stable yet
mesh	✔️
material	✔️
metaball	✔️
object	✔️
scene	✔️
world	✔️
lightprobes	✔️
particles	❌	On-going
speakers	❌	Planned
vse	❌	Planned
physics	❌	Planned
libraries	❗	Partial

Performance issues

Since this addon is written in pure python for a research purpose, performances could be better from all perspective. I'm working on it.

Dependencies

Dependencies	Version	Needed
Replication	latest	yes

Contributing

See contributing section of the documentation.

Licensing

See license