Comments on: Blender 2.8 Expected Release Schedule Published https://pcper.com/2018/07/blender-2-8-expected-release-schedule-published/ A Leader in PC Hardware Reviews and News Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:19:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous2 https://pcper.com/2018/07/blender-2-8-expected-release-schedule-published/comment-page-1/#comment-109839 Tue, 03 Jul 2018 21:26:14 +0000 https://pcper.com/news/blender-2-8-expected-release-schedule-published/#comment-109839 In reply to NiceForNewerHardwareButNotSomeOlderAndPopularIntelSKUs.

Sandy Bridge on Linux is
Sandy Bridge on Linux is OpenGL 3.3, with some more advanced extensions also implemented.

In general Linux have better OpenGL quality drivers on Linux than MacOS, and better than Windows on Intel and AMD cases.

]]> By: Prodeous@Work https://pcper.com/2018/07/blender-2-8-expected-release-schedule-published/comment-page-1/#comment-109835 Tue, 03 Jul 2018 12:21:46 +0000 https://pcper.com/news/blender-2-8-expected-release-schedule-published/#comment-109835 Indeed this is one good step
Indeed this is one good step for Blender, and I’m quite excited by it.

Using it for few weeks now, and even though unstable (however for what I used it so far no crashes) it is so.. different. Learning the new keymap is going to take a while especially to overwrite my muscle memory.

Still Eevee, full code re-write. The overall interface optimizations. Can’t wait to switch to it full time once it becomes much more stable.

]]> By: NiceForNewerHardwareButNotSomeOlderAndPopularIntelSKUs https://pcper.com/2018/07/blender-2-8-expected-release-schedule-published/comment-page-1/#comment-109832 Tue, 03 Jul 2018 05:46:42 +0000 https://pcper.com/news/blender-2-8-expected-release-schedule-published/#comment-109832 The videos of the EEVEE
The videos of the EEVEE viewport rendering looks a lot better than the old versions of Blender’s OpenGL Render Image/Animation that was very feature limited compared to what can be done in Blender 2.80.

I’m very excited because I’m on older AMD GPU hardware(Radeon Discrete mobile 7650M/Terascale Rebrand) on my laptop that does not have the OpenCL support for GPU Cycles rendering(Cycles on AMD GPUs requires GCN 2.0/1.2 or later GPUs). The 7650m on my laptop supports OpenGL 4.4 and the Ivy Bridge CPU/Integrated Intel Graphics supports at least OpenGL 4.0.

EEVEE in the viewport rendering and that more complete set of features sounds great.

It looks like OpenGL 3.3 support for Sandy Bridge processors is not there for windows(OpenGL 3.1) according to wikipedia Intel’s Integrated Graphics listing but MacOS/OSX supports OpenGL 3.3 for any Sandy Bridge Based Appple products. Linux only goes to 3.1 for Sandy Bridge according to wikipedia but that may be outdated information.

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