[Bf-viewport] What format will the render be?

[Mike Erwin]

We still need to work some of these things out.

I like the flexibility of forward+. Will we be able to implement that in
OpenGL 3.2? Thinking of the compute part. Even latest Mac OS is stuck on GL
4.1 with no compute shaders. Worth investigating!

PBR definitely, Clément knows more about this. Support workflows targeting
Cycles, targeting Unreal. We can mine Unreal for ideas. PBR will be the
usual best viewing mode, but not the only option. Some projects don't need
a "final" render or realistic materials.

For example UI elements & widgets can use a totally different shading model
but still be integrated into the scene among fully shaded objects.

Short answer: we still need to decide what is needed & how feasible are the
things we want. Brainstorm here, then make a design task on dev.b.o?

On Tuesday, August 23, 2016, Jacob Merrill <blueprintrandom1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Will the viewport renderer use Forward+ rendering?
>
> some sort of programmable pipeline?
>
> PBR?
>
> is there a document I can read for the render type/capabilities?
>


-- 
Mike Erwin
musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
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