[Bf-committers] Arbitrary materials for mesh display in viewport (solid view)

[Gustav Göransson]

The displaying of models/textures in the viewport might be the most
confusing area in Blender (After five years of using blender I'm still
not sure if I get it...).

Right now we have:

1. Viewport Shading (Textured, Solid, Wire, Bounding Box).
2. Shading setting in the n-panel (GLSL, Multitexture, Textureface) +
Texture solid.
3. Display settings for each object (Texture, solid ,xray etc.).

To this add how blender shows texture loaded in Image/UV editor that
PapaSmurf mentions... and not to mention procedural textures...

In my opinion blender need to be a lot clearer on what are displayed
in the viewport and which setting that overrides others before
introducing more viewport features....


On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 03:56, Roger Wickes <rogerwickes at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Animating and Shading are two different tasks, and as you point out, conflict in their needs in-tool.
>
> As you indicate, I would +1 the Animators work in Solid display mode,
> with Texture Display enabled in Solid mode (View Properties).
> Load a test/generic image in the UV/Image Editor, even something that enhances or even
> outright traces your edge loops. Might be ugly, but it allows you to see exactly what you are animating.
>
> Use flash/blast-render to make your pre-vis playback videos using the opengl rendering.
>
> This single texture can be packed and completely different from the true material and texture layers
> used by the shader guy with all their pretty and detailed hi-res textures and nodes and such.
> The shader folk can play with all their Mat=Tex settings to get that just-right pre-pro look to
> feed into post.
>
> In this case, it is a good thing to have on-screen display of a mesh totally divorced from the
> rendered result.. Most times it is just confusing as heck to the newb :)
>
> Regarding the wireframe comment, yes, it would be great if wireframe color picked up from the diffuse color
> at least.
>
>  --Roger
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "malefico at licuadorastudio.com" <malefico at licuadorastudio.com>
> To: Bf-committers at blender.org
> Sent: Tue, June 1, 2010 7:16:37 PM
> Subject: [Bf-committers] Arbitrary materials for mesh display in viewport (solid view)
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Since some time to this part I have been struggling with mesh visibility
> in viewport. Now that the use of Node Materials is widely spread, it is
> common situation that meshes are hard to see: for instance animating
> Sintel, it depends on which node was left active in the library file, you
> could see her face completely black, grey or orange.
>
> Dark colours are hard to see when animating facial features or checking
> deformations for instance and since usually the animator does not have
> access to linked characters materials (eg: to set active a brighter
> colour) it is a rather uncomfortable situation.
>
> At the studio we think that it would be better (for instance) to let the
> user assign an arbitrary solid colour for the mesh in solid view instead
> of showing the particular active material node.
>
> I thought about bringing this subject to discussion to see other people
> thoughts about this.
>
> Best regards
>
> malefico.
>
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