[Bf-viewport] Updates for the week of April 11th - April 18th

[Alexander Romanov]

Some tasks overlap with the tasks from this page 
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/OpenGL/Shaders . May 
be it makes sense to have a single list?
And Just about wireframes. There is a good approach described here 
http://codeflow.org/entries/2012/aug/02/easy-wireframe-display-with-barycentric-coordinates/ 
. Also, I have already thought about flat shading, so I can pick this 
two tasks for the near future.

On 19.04.2016 08:31, Mike Erwin wrote:
> For the upcoming week:
>
> I've been writing up some Viewport 2.8 ideas / docs / designs and will 
> share these very soon. Initially it will be "what merwin thinks", but 
> should give us something to talk about and arrive at "what Blender 
> folks think". And then on to planning & actions & great success.
>
> Here's a list of topics from my notebook -- I can pick 3 or 4 to 
> expand on by next week, prioritized by your responses. A lot of these 
> get into technical details, but always important is the idea that the 
> visuals should support and enhance the task at hand.
>
> - fundamental drawing styles:  surface (full materials), shape/form 
> (solid, matcap), structure (polygons)
> - wireframes!
> - selection outlines, indication
> - mixed drawing: wires atop surfaces
> - how to combine techniques -- material + nice outlines + screen door 
> stippling for example
> - matrix stacks
> - state setting, AKA "revenge of glLineWidth"
> - immediate-mode-style drawing
> - building draw batches -- GAWAIN
> - splitting draw batches -- by material, for low VRAM systems, etc.
> - batch caching, animation
> - supported systems & GPUs
> - OpenGL & Vulkan roadmap
> - partial updates / dirty normals
> - GPU data request -- shader/technique declares what it needs
> - OpenSubdiv enhancements needed
> - reflection / env maps / image based lighting
> - real-time shadows
> - image & texture enhancements needed
> - material enhancements needed
> - Blender --> Unreal pipeline
> - Blender --> [your favorite engine] pipeline
>
> Mike Erwin
> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Mitchell Stokes <mogurijin at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mogurijin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello devs,
>
>     Any interesting viewport updates for the week of April 11th to
>     April 18th? Any plans for the upcoming week? I will be aggregating
>     information on the Viewport Reports wiki page[1].
>
>     Thanks,
>     Mitchell Stokes
>
>     [1] https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Viewport/Reports
>
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Alexander Romanov (Blend4Web Team)

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