Blender render engine and future of raster engines?

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  • What are possibilities for evolving of Blender render engine (not neccesarilly in PBR sense) ?
  • Could there be future developments of rasterization engine utilizing GPU along with CPU?

So, I have in mind the future of Blender Render (Internal) as separate engine to PRB branch, viewport render and Cycles,
as separate and possible realtime renderer.

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checkout forward+ rendering

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Great project

Can Blender render go toward this path?

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Exactly. Blender Internal is the worst of both worlds. It’s slow, excessively complicated to use, and unable to take advantage of modern GPUs. It’d be possible to make a vastly superior, truly fast rendering engine, not based on raytracing.

Alternatively, one could simply advance the viewport so much that it reaches acceptable quality for many things. In a way, that makes the most sense: Use Cycles for advanced offline raytraced rendering, but simply render using the advanced viewport for fast, good quality results. That way we’d have two, not three render engines.