It should behave like cycles.
Even if not efficient at all, we still do the same create - draw - free process that was done in the old viewport to save vram (maybe not really the case now) and not care about simulation's GPU texture state sync.
This is quite basic as it only support boundbing boxes.
But the material can refine the volume shape in anyway the user like.
To overcome this limitation, a voxelisation should be done on the mesh (generating a SDF maybe?) and tested against every volumetric cell.
The system now uses several 3D textures in order to decouple every steps of the volumetric rendering.
See https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news/physically-based-unified-volumetric-rendering-in-frostbite for more details.
On the technical side, instead of using a compute shader to populate the 3D textures we use layered rendering with a geometry shader to render 1 fullscreen triangle per 3D texture slice.
Basically reverts rB65c4149f203610 and fixes the issue in a better way.
Keymaps using the removed operator will be affected. Switching header
from top to bottom now has the shortcut F5, just like switching other
regions.
This moves background images out of the 3D viewport,
to be used only as camera reference images.
For 3D viewport references,
background images can be used, see: D2827
Some work is still needed
(background option isn't working at the moment).
Tool for creating polygons, exact usage may change based on feedback.
LMB to add faces at boundaries (tris from edges, quads from verts).
- Ctrl splits edges
- Alt to dissolve edges/verts.
Works well with vertex snap & auto-merge.
This uses selection hover but isn't intended to introduce more widely
pre-selection highlighting, at least it will be restricted to this tool.
This would break if using preview in VSE. We now use the scene engine
not the workspace engine.
That said we could have the preview engine defined as part of the sequence strip
as we had for draw modes in the past. But this is a separated topic for a
separated patch.
This issue in particular was introduced in e4f2b2be26.
Note: VSE preview is still broken in two cases:
* If you have Eevee as the engine in the Scene of the Scene strip.
* If you use Clay, save the file, and re-open.
Objects from set scene gets flattened out to the active scene depsgraph, so it
is a big question why do we need to build dependency graph for set scenes.
Make it a tag for relations update function instead, since we will not be able
to easily rebuild relations, and we wouldn't be able to iterate all scenes.
This is a part of mowing depsgraph to be per-workspace/layer in 2.8 branch.
