Skewer & Loom

A high-performance, serverless distributed rendering system for Google Cloud Platform.

Full documentation: skewer-project.github.io/skewer

• skewer/ — C++ ray-tracing deep renderer
• loom/ — C++ deep compositor
• orchestration/ — Go CLI and Cloud Run Coordinator
• libs/exrio/ — Shared deep EXR helpers

Quick Start

1. Set up dependencies — see the Installation guide
2. Build with CMake: cmake --preset relwithdebinfo && cmake --build --preset relwithdebinfo --parallel 4
3. Or follow the GCP Deployment guide for cloud rendering
4. Open the Scene Previewer and render your first scene

Key Docs

Guide	Link
Quick Start	skewer-project.github.io/skewer/getting-started/quick-start/
CLI Reference	skewer-project.github.io/skewer/reference/cli/
Scene Format	skewer-project.github.io/skewer/reference/scene-format/
Rendering Tips	skewer-project.github.io/skewer/reference/rendering-tips/
Architecture Overview	skewer-project.github.io/skewer/developer/overview/
Full docs index	skewer-project.github.io/skewer

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is managed via Terraform in deployments/terraform/. CI/CD is handled by Cloud Build via deployments/cloudbuild.yaml.

Scene conversion helpers (Blender ↔ Skewer) are in scripts/blender/.