[Bf-cycles] Cycles as Default Engine

[Mafteiu Scai Vlad]

Hi,

I agree Cycles should be default. It is complete? Nope, I still wish
several stuff to come to the GPU. But it is good enough for most people. BI
is ancient already.

Vlad

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2014-06-19 20:46 GMT+03:00 Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org>:

>  Hi,
> I don't understand the turmoil. We talk about a default, that can be
> changed with 1 click.
> BI is still here, and it takes you <1 second to enable it.
>
> The majority of people use Cycles these days, it produces nice images, is
> well tested and most beginner tutorials are also for Cycles.
>
> Thomas
>
> Am 19.06.2014 19:37, schrieb Thomas Beck:
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I'm quite unsure about this. I really love Cycles but its current lack of
> a proper shadow catcher & the missing env light support in the shadow pass
> (that is absolutely necessary for serious compositing work is making me
> doubt) if we should do that already. If we like to make the switch when we
> are "production" ready then I would vote against the change. If we can live
> with compositing artists biting in the desk when it comes to compositing
> live action with Cycles I'd say look if we can implement a shadow catcher
> first.
>
> I am teaching Cycles often but I would never stop to teach BI as well as
> it's a very fast (esp. for MoGraph) and decent renderer if you know which
> knobs to turn. It may be harder for beginners but I would vote for the
> change only if we are feature complete. For me and my compositing buddies
> (and I'm sure Sebastian is screaming out loud here too) is a proper shadow
> pass support (including environment lighting, shadow catcher) a show
> stopper.
>
>  Many greetings, Thomas
>
>
>
> 2014-06-19 18:53 GMT+02:00 Gottfried Hofmann <gottfried at blenderdiplom.com>
> :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> using Cycles as the default engine would really help newbies, so +1
>> I stoppped teaching BI about one year ago...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Gottfried
>>
>> On 06/19/2014 06:51 PM, Thomas Dinges wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I think it's time to make Cycles the default engine in Blender. This has
>> > been discussed a few times already, and the argument was to wait until
>> > we have Volume/Smoke etc..
>> > Now that we do, it's time to act. :)
>> >
>> > 1) Any open issues?
>> > Sergey fixed some remaining issues with Preview Rendering for Brushes
>> > etc, while Cycles is the active engine. Are there any other problems
>> > that need to be addressed?
>> >
>> > 2) Presets
>> > I think we should have some presets, at least a "Standard Surface" for
>> > Beginners. Brecht made a quick hack for that a while back, I think
>> > having bundled Node Groups is still the way to go.
>> > https://developer.blender.org/D474
>> >
>> > I would like to do the move for Blender 2.72 (upcoming Release).
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Thomas
>> >
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