[Bf-cycles] Fwd: Viewport render keyboard shortcut + minor Cycles viewport interface consideration

[David Black]

Ah, okay.

After looking at your Shift Z key binding code commit, would the 
simplest solution for now (hopefully requiring the least coding) be to 
have 'Shift Z' toggle render / pause (in the same way 'Alt Z' toggles 
solid / texture)? 'Z' takes you back to non-rendered viewport.

Actually that last point reminds me of a little something you may want 
to add to the end of your to-do list, not important, not a bug, just a 
little tweak for the future.
If someone pauses the viewport while it's rendering, then presses 'Z' to 
switch back to non-rendered viewport, at a later time click 'Viewport 
Shading Rendered', they might wonder why nothing is happening and the 
samples are stuck at 0.

A slight modification could be, pressing 'Z' resets the pause state and 
returns to non-rendered viewport. Hopefully a helpful idea for some 
future time.

David

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On 07/09/2013 21:26, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
> The combined buttons looks nice but doesn't help avoiding the
> limitation. Anyway, is mostly a matter of me spending some time to
> make pause/resume a general feature of the render engine API instead
> of just doing it with this simple button.
>
> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:03 AM, David Black <db4tech at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Thanks Brecht for your reply and keyboard shortcut implementation,
>>
>> Sounds logical, look forward to trying the viewport render key combination!
>>
>> In connection with moving the pause button technical limitation. Been having
>> a think plus trying some PS mock-ups. Instead of moving the pause button,
>> would modifying the existing 'Viewport Shading' button with a pause option
>> (split the button) during viewport render overcome that limitation, see
>> mock-up image (link)? In the same way active proportional editing opens an
>> attached set of options next to it's button and the rest of interface
>> automatically adjusts position.
>>
>> http://www.pasteall.org/pic/58882
>>
>> Personally, I find the combined button look quite aesthetically pleasing. :)
>>
>> Apologies if the above is a daft idea
>> David
>> --
>>
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>>
>> On 06/09/2013 14:26, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
>>
>> Alt-ZZ I also wouldn't suggest to use, things like GG and RR are good
>> for modal operators, where it isn't going to conflict with anything
>> else. But if it would temporarily switch to another mode or add delays
>> it's probably best to avoid that.
>>
>> I think shift-Z to switch to rendered or to pop up a menu to choose
>> the draw mode would be ok. I committed the change to let it switch to
>> rendered draw mode directly, if many here think this should be a menu
>> instead, or have another better idea, it can still be changed.
>>
>>
>> The pause button, yes it would make sense to move, it's there now due
>> to a technical limitation. This is part of the addon and they can only
>> add buttons at the end, not in arbitrary places, but it could be
>> solved.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 1:43 AM, David Black <db4tech at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> I also like that idea, although we then have two keys + mouse selection for
>> 'Viewport Shading Rendered'. I tried to think of ways to keep it as simple
>> as possible by just expanding on what we already have, a choice of Alt Z or
>> Alt ZZ.
>>
>> By the way (a bit off topic but in case they view the Cycles ML), I would
>> like to thank whichever developer implemented 'GG' Edge Loop slide, such an
>> elegant idea!
>> Thank you kindly,
>>
>> David
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>>
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>>
>> On 06/09/2013 00:06, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com wrote:
>>
>> Instead of trying to select hotkeys for every viewport mode I would
>> prefer one hotkey to open a menu, similar to Ctrl Tab in edit mode
>>
>> http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=58801
>> Daniel Salazar
>> patazstudio.com
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Carlo Andreacchio <carlorules at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would vote against using Alt Z-Z to switch to texture viewport first then
>> to cycles. The way texture viewport mode works is that it loads up all the
>> textures in to GPU ram and there is no way of clearing it out of GPU
>> memory... Which then poses a problem for people dealing with large GPU
>> scenes. Having a dedicated key which doesn't switch through any other modes
>> is ideal.
>>
>> I vote for shift Z as Bassam suggested to become the standard hotkey.
>>
>> Carlo
>>
>>
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