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- Ton Roosendaal announces that AMD agreed on sponsoring Blender for two projects;

one is for supporting Mike Erwin's work on Viewport and upgrading Viewport, another

one is an internal project to hook up Blender with their new ProRender engine.

More will be announced next week at SIGGRAPH. More sponsors are likely underway too.

https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2016-July/047519.html

Ton Roosendaal on Twitter: "Sunday #b3d developer meeting minutes: https://t.co/wzVTbBdKg4 (AMD supp...

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What is ProRender engine?

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Mike Erwin work:

• A doc about the transition from "legacy" OpenGL 2.1 and how we can get from this to "modern" GL 3.2 ...
• A doc with more info about drawing objects in the 3D view
• hardware support: hardware support - Google Docs

A library to handle low-level GPU details, and give us useful machinery

that modern GL and Vulkan do not provide.

Gawain - Google Docs

He said to add your comments, suggestions, questions to these docs. I'm also

very interested to hear how other people's projects fit together. If

anything here aligns with your project, or clashes with it, respond here so

we can work it out. ([Bf-committers] some Blender 2.8 system design docs )

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[mdriftmeyer]

Both projects are highly welcomed from my user perspective. I look forward to them. If only someone would sponsor a more streamlined UI/UX that kept one from becoming lost in UI chaos.