[Bf-committers] Cycles as Default Engine

[Sam Vila]

Hi Daniel, of course I know you can change that on the menu, what I'm
saying is that BI is a feature complete render engine (maybe not the best
quality ever but it's complete), Cycles is not complete, one more example:

The render passes in cycles are most of the time unusable, try to get an
object ID or a material ID pass from an object with motion blur for
example. Some of the 'features' are on the UI but they are actually not
usable for production. In my opinion if you have a 'feature' that is
unusable is better to remove that feature from the UI until it's ready. I
started rendering a shot in cycles thinking that I could have material and
object passes with motion blur and I realize that these options are not
usable at all and I had to fake these passes in other ways.

All I'm saying is... Yes, I'm looking forward to have Cycles as the main
engine BUT only when it's fully featured and not having inconsistency
problems as the ones I mention. Also it has more limitations from an artist
point of view to tweak the lighting and managing the light in comparison
with the BI. Even Arnold render fakes many things but in cycles is trying
to achieve realistic rendering results which is fine but not really
allowing the artist sometimes to adjust settings in a non-realistic way
(example: shadow color on the rendering).