Hi Carlo,<div>I'm a big cheerleader for wireframes in Blender's future, and have ideas & working code to make them better.</div><div><br></div><div>When people say "no more wireframes!!" I translate that to really mean let's not use simplified drawing due to computer limitations. 3D software used to use wireframes or flat shading or Gouraud shading for performance reasons. Those *reasons* are obsolete but the techniques are just tools in our toolbox. In 2016 it's really true that the machine can draw whatever we need at an acceptably quick pace, so we can shift focus to <span></span>what needs to be shown (and how should it be shown) for a given task. Sometimes, as you point out, the most useful visuals *are* pure wireframes.<br><br>On Wednesday, September 28, 2016, Carlo Andreacchio <<a href="mailto:carlo@convergen.com.au">carlo@convergen.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Hi all, nice work with laying the framework for the viewport development.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I have a little bit of feedback on the blog post.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">> Groundbreak to illustrate how wireframes are a poor choice for some (if not all) tasks</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I understand that this is under the character modelling part of the document, however there was no other area for modelling.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Underneath under shading section of the blog post, I do not see a pure wireframe mode, there is solid wireframe overlays, and depth wires (which I assume is wireframe mode but it clips off the wires behind it from the faces). Removing wireframe mode hinder the experience of a archviz / infrastructure viz artist.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Wireframe is essential for tracing out images / pdfs which contain plans (of buildings / roads / pathways etc.etc.etc). In an ideal world the plans would be all in vector formats, but from real world deliveries, most of the time they are flattened pdfs.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">In addition to plan modelling, we also sometimes receive models created by automatic means (lidar / dem / etc.etc.etc), and sometimes models from programs that do not export nicely. These models usually come with internal faces, overlapping faces and other craziness which is not blenders fault. Wireframe is essential to cleaning up these meshes in preparation for use for render.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Talking with our other artists, they all agree that its great that blender is trying to change up the workflow & excited for the new options they are suggesting, but wireframe mode is a modelling essential for archviz.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">It would be great to get the developer's thoughts on this and keep the discussion open.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Kind Regards</div><div style="margin:2px 0px 0px;font-size:12.8px"><div><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif">Carlo</div></div></div>
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