[Bf-viewport] Blender 2.8 Viewport Development

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Thanks for the write up! Great to see the ideas that have been
floating around confirmed in this document. There's lots of questions
I could ask about the specific implementations, but it's probably too
early for that. But a few general ones:

* The relation between realtime Blender Internal and the PBR viewport
is not clear to me. Would the plan be to maintain the existing BI
shading/lighting system, and add a PBR system in addition, or would
they overlap, get merged or share code somehow?

* It's not really obvious where tasks fit. We have screens which also
corresponds to a specific workflow or "task", but it's not as fine
grained. Multiple viewports in a screen could have different shading
but not a different object mode. The easiest would be to say a task is
a shading mode preset, but maybe there's ideas here to tie
screens/modes/tools into it as well.

* Alpha order handling seems a like it could be something that makes
cleanly separating plates tricky, but I guess this a general problem
in realtime rendering. I'm not too familiar with the latest methods
though so perhaps there's algorithms that fit the plates model well.


On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Dalai Felinto <dfelinto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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