Damn. I was hoping it was going to be in 3.5. Or at least 3.6. Don’t get me wrong, I want them to take the time to do it right, but also I want that time to be over with already.
I would especially like this ^.
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Grease pencil integration and “thickness output”, I’ve waited 3 years for the GP full integration, what’s 8 more months? I’m so glad this is on the roadmap and has a possibility to come out this year! Amazing! Congratulations to the Blender developing team!
Same, I have been waiting for more Eevee update news since Blender first announced that Eevee will be getting some big changes in January 2021’s news post
Does anyone know how many Blender devs are working on this feature compared to how many devs would probably be working on a similar feature over at autodesk/adobe/maxon/Epic/Nvidia/Pixar/Foundry?
There’s currently one developer working on Eevee Next. I would imagine there would be at least 50 at a company, but half of those would be pointless middle managers
A lot more. I would guess its usually 5-30 people.
Currently on eevee-next is working mostly Clement, with some help of Jeroen with vulkan etc. and those guys from apple for Metal.
In comparsion:
Lumen were done by 4 people and took 2 years until was made public two years ago.
Epic have around 140 employees in total, but they have a lop Fortnite and Launcher, support etc. So for rendering part my guess would be 12-30 people?
For RAGE (RDR2 engine) upgrade (they used previous work as starting point) worked 28 programmers, and rdr2 development took 8 years. - its not precise cause not everyone worked full time during development and they also worked after release.
It’s not one feature so much as a re-write of the entire render engine, and nearly all of it by one dev so that does put things in perspective. Like most things in Blender, it’ll be done when it’s done. I’m just excited.
I guess it was mostly Clement alone up to some point, but if you see the module’s recent activities (meeting notes, developer weekly reports, PR/commits) currently most module members are contributing to EEVEE Next. Notably Miguel Pozzo is working on SSS and volume rendering for it.
It seems like a lot of planned features for Eevee Next didn’t make it over to the new task after the Gitea migration- there’s no mention of screen-space global illumination, for example, which worries me a bit. I’d be very sad if that is no longer planned
Appears as if they are going for a minimum viable product approach for screen space effects in Blender 4.0. I assume that the extended target “HiZ raytracing optimization” is about global illumination?!
In my opinion that makes a lot of sense. This is such a massive change under the hood and there are going to be so many issues that need to be fixed (vendor specific, driver specific, …). Adding global illumination on top of that as official goal would be a bit much in my view.
i’m sure motion blur shutter curve is useful for matching certain cameras for compositing, but what i’d really love is to see motion blur in the viewport. does anyone know if that’s still on the table?
