odf,

I think what you're doing is useful regardless of whether or not I fix the Lux loader facilities. We have the possibility of building other exporters from this codebase - perhaps other renderers will require pre-computed normals and they are not all open source.

As for my forking the Lux code, I expect that my desired changes will be rejected by the Lux architects:

1) The Lux guys have not included any other special features to accomodate any other exporters, except for Blender. The only reason they accept Blender is they all use Blender.

2) The CG community as a whole would feel that Luxrender would be a disgusting tool if it had anything in it tainted by Poser. We Poser users are the "shit eaters".

If I'm wrong, and they would like the changes, well that doesn't alter anything I'm doing. When I have the changes mature, I will offer them to the Lux developers. If they want it, they can have it. If they don't, then I really don't care.

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