<div dir="ltr">Hi Yuri,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the info.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div><div>For Blend4Web, why is the GL version Blender chooses important? I thought it implemented everything in WebGL (but I'm not intimately familiar with the project). Passing data / materials / shaders from Blender to Blend4Web will definitely need attention as Blender moves forward. But I don't understand the argument to hold back the desktop GL version.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Yuri Kovelenov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yuri@blend4web.com" target="_blank">yuri@blend4web.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Accessibility has always been the main advantage of Blender. Being a<br>
FOSS tool, Blender is natural choice for CG beginners,<br>
freelancers and small teams. Some of them cannot afford paying for<br>
expensive hardware. It is also often used on Linux where<br>
open source drivers are often of bad quality and thus can lead to<br>
inability to run Blender.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Totally agree with the Blender-for-everyone ideal. I don't think we're setting the bar *too* high though. It's going to ease development and benefit the vast majority of users. Brecht beat me to the 12% thing!</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding cost, I just got a used entry-level Radeon HD 2400 for testing the low end -- paid $13 (including shipping) on eBay. Lots of Dells had these, some iMacs... People can get a much better card for $20 to $50. Maybe we can work on communicating which GPUs *will* be supported instead of the ones that will *not* be.</div><div><br></div><div>On Linux I only use the open source drivers, so this will be tested on AMD & Intel during development. FOSS drivers have gotten pretty good lately.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">In any case what you are doing is already awesome. We are going to<br>
dedicate a programmer for the viewport project as well.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's great!</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature">Mike Erwin<br>musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire</div></div></div></div></div>