Expand render pipeline, outputs, lighting, import and pre-flight (1.9.0)

.github/workflows/tests.yml

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+name: Tests
+
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-24.04
+    timeout-minutes: 90
+    env:
+      # The version the suite is written against. Bump deliberately: Blender
+      # changes its Python API between releases.
+      BLENDER_VERSION: "5.0.0"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Cache Blender
+        id: cache-blender
+        uses: actions/cache@v4
+        with:
+          path: blender
+          key: blender-${{ env.BLENDER_VERSION }}-linux-x64
+
+      - name: Download Blender
+        if: steps.cache-blender.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
+        run: |
+          series="${BLENDER_VERSION%.*}"
+          curl -fsSL -o blender.tar.xz \
+            "https://download.blender.org/release/Blender${series}/blender-${BLENDER_VERSION}-linux-x64.tar.xz"
+          mkdir blender
+          tar -xf blender.tar.xz -C blender --strip-components=1
+
+      - name: Install system libraries
+        # Blender's Workbench and Cycles renders run headless through EGL;
+        # Mesa supplies a software GL on a runner without a GPU.
+        run: |
+          sudo apt-get update
+          sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+            libegl1 libgl1 libglx-mesa0 libgl1-mesa-dri libxi6 libxxf86vm1 \
+            libxfixes3 libxrender1 libxkbcommon0 libsm6 libice6
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        run: python3 tests/run_tests.py --blender blender/blender

CITATION.cff

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+cff-version: 1.2.0
+message: "If you use MultiView Product Renderer in your research, please cite it as below."
+title: "MultiView Product Renderer"
+type: software
+authors:
+  - given-names: Danyal
+    family-names: Sarfraz
+version: 1.11.0
+license: MIT
+repository-code: "https://github.com/Danyals-code/Addon-for-MultiView-Rendering-AMVR"
+abstract: >-
+  A Blender add-on that turns CAD (STEP, IGES) and mesh files into standardized
+  multi-view image sets and datasets: canonical camera rigs or published
+  protocols, studio lighting, clay, line-art, depth, normal and part-ID passes,
+  camera poses, COCO and BOP annotations, vector engineering drawings, seeded
+  randomization, and a provenance manifest with Croissant metadata.
+keywords:
+  - Blender
+  - CAD
+  - STEP
+  - multi-view rendering
+  - synthetic data
+  - dataset generation
+  - engineering drawings