[Bf-viewport] Updates for the week of May 30th - June 6th

[Mike Erwin]

I see value in both a "Cycles preview" and a dedicated real-time renderer.
Depends on what you (the artist) are targeting. Making assets for external
game engines (like UE4) is also important, which makes the viewport a
"preview" for that too.

The tools/interface should work as close to the same as possible so people
can learn one material system and apply it to real-time or pre-rendered or
game projects. Avoid the situation we have now with multiple ways to create
materials.

It doesn't have to be a perfect approximation to whatever "other" renderer
you're targeting. As long as it's good -- which it already is! -- and able
to be improved over time.

Mike Erwin
musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Clément FOUCAULT <foucault.clem at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think we first need to agree on how to integrate this.
>
> As of now it's trying to mimic cycles with viewport methods and I find
> this alienating for the UI to have all these options even for.
>
> Also under some circumstances approximations are very far from cycles
> render. So I don't realy like it being presented as cycles preview and
> would like to separate it to another renderer dedicated to that.
>
> What are your thoughts on this?
>
> 2016-06-09 22:37 GMT+02:00 Mike Erwin <significant.bit at gmail.com>:
>
>> Excellent work as always Clément! How can we get this into an "official"
>> Blender release one day?
>>
>> Mike Erwin
>> musician, naturalist, pixel pusher, hacker extraordinaire
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Clément FOUCAULT <foucault.clem at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On my side I've release another iteration of my PBR experiment branch.
>>>
>>> https://vimeo.com/169475925
>>>
>>> I'm going to create a wikipage with some rambling about the PBR /
>>> shading side of things.
>>>
>>> I also think like Alexander that we should have another dedicated
>>> renderer. But I don't think we should focus it to replace BI because we
>>> can't do everything with rasterisation techniques efficiently. So in my
>>> opinion it should be focus to have realtime rendering feature only.
>>>
>>> Clément Foucault
>>>
>>> 2016-06-09 18:33 GMT+02:00 Alexander Romanov <a.romanov at blend4web.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>> I've made some docs here
>>>> https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BI_temporary_removal
>>>> and here
>>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sxIz_Uk-foCHMq3vRQxgrlX9c-r3kMVPMqfuh-N1ZRs/edit#gid=1586247834
>>>> . The table shows what we should implement in Viewport to cover BI
>>>> functionality, any comments are welcome!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 09.06.2016 19:17, Mitchell Stokes wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello devs,
>>>>
>>>> Any interesting viewport updates for the week of May 30th to June 6th?
>>>> 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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