[Bf-viewport] Blender 2.8 Viewport Development

[Yury Baranov]

I disagree with "Camera and staging" plate scheme. Camera work needs to be
composition-driven, that means we need not just "solid" meshes preview - we
need to see textures and highlights (specular maps) on models. Normal maps
have less impact on overall composition of shot, but diff-spec textures are
something that builds it.

Also, texture painting needs something like "multibrush" - ability to paint
on multiple channels at the same time (e.g. paint with bump, specular color
and diffuse color with one stroke), and multiple texture layers support. My
first thoughts on design - each "texture layer" have multiple maps in it
(diff/spec/gloss/metalness/whatever) and those maps are composed using the
"texture layer" order. Dunno if it have anything to do with viewport, but
decided to share my thoughts anyways.

About everything else - design looks pretty solid and workflow-oriented for
me. Thanks for making awesome stuff, guys! Blender makes me happy :)

2016-09-27 15:00 GMT+03:00 Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com>:

> Dear all,
>
> For the past few days we had a Blender 2.8 viewport development
> workshop at the Blender Institute.
>
> We focused our discussions in the user experience, but deliverables
> were decised based on the expected progression of the code
> development. The implementation and usability (UI, ...) are still
> pending, but the big picture here presented is enough to structure the
> oncoming code architecture.
>
> The overall design was just posted on the development blog:
> https://code.blender.org/2016/09/blender-2-8-viewport-development/ ‎
>
> We welcome any comments and feedback you may have *BUT* please let's
> use the bf-viewport mailing list for that, just to keep it more
> focused.
>
> Apart from that we will soon announce an open-call for helping with
> the OpenGL immediate mode to modern OpenGL effort. That will be the
> easiest way for other developers to get involved with the viewport
> project.
>
> Best regards,
> Dalai
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