Dev:2.8/Viewport/PBR Pipeline

PBR Viewport Project

This section gives an overview of the Physicaly Based Rendering/Shading project for Blender's viewport, it's targets and my personal technical choices. Nothing is carved in stone and every idea is welcome.

I will go step by step through the rendering process and discuss each point that are important for PBR.

-- Hypersomniac September 11th, 2016

Pbr Frame Rendering flow chart

Pre Render

1. Update Probes
2. Pre Render Buffers
3. Object Setup
4. Render Surface / Shader compilation

Bsdf Rendering

5. Direct Lighting
6. Indirect Lighting

Post Render

7. Transparency
8. Post drawing

Technical Details

Minor Features / Improvement Ideas
Planning
Technical Notes