[Bf-viewport] Blender 2.8 direction

[Brecht Van Lommel]

There will be some solution to this, so that you can have Cycles selected
as the render engine while using wireframes/clay/eevee in other viewports.
However there has been no decision on how it will work exactly.

Personally I think the right solution is to keep the draw modes concept as
it exists in 2.7x, but adding to and improving the available modes. And
then leaving the render engine choice to set the output target, controlling
which renderer is used when pressing F12 and which panels and buttons are
relevant in the UI.

On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Carlo Andreacchio <carlo at convergen.com.au>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just wanted to prod this topic again as it has been 2 weeks without a
> reply. I think it may have been skimmed over during SIGGRAPH / end of July.
>
> Cheers
>
> Carlo
>
>
>
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> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Carlo Andreacchio <carlo at convergen.com.au
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have been in contact with Mike Erwin about where to post this and he
>> suggested sending it here.
>>
>> Just to introduce myself, I am Carlo from Adelaide Australia, and we are
>> part of a Architecture / Infrastructure visualisation company. We have been
>> using blender for the past 8 years as our main CG application and have
>> supported the foundation in various ways over the years. We have around 10
>> artists who work for us who also all use blender.
>>
>> We keep up to date with the Blender developments and Eevee looks great.
>> However, we are seeking some clarifications about the direction of the
>> program, as most of the discussions have happened behind closed doors.
>>
>> Wireframe has always been a controversial topic around blender2.8. There
>> was development at the last blender conference shown (
>> https://youtu.be/MD7MU-UVG2U?t=625 ), however looking through the latest
>> builds no wireframe modes are to be seen. Is this mode still yet to be
>> combined, or is wireframe mode to be removed?
>>
>> Cycles and its use is important to us, and testing out the builds over
>> the past few months has been interesting, as cycles is constantly rendering
>> in the background. I have seen the blog post about wires being drawn over
>> the top of the cycles render, however, on production scenes this is not
>> practical and having an option to turn it off will be important. Which
>> leads onto.....
>>
>> What is the direction for Cycles viewport? Is the aim to replace it with
>> Eevee, and have Eevee as the standard viewport across all renderers? or
>> will Cycles viewport be independent to this? How will performance be of
>> Eevee with its prettyness be for production scenes
>>
>> I appreciate all the work that has been done so far, all I am trying to
>> do is get the discussion going for these features.
>>
>> Kind Regards
>>
>> Carlo
>>
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