Reply To: 2.8 Hurdles and Roadblocks
Captains Log #4
Saw a pigeon today, flying freely in the sky. Sometimes I wonder why I went into this line of work,with all its comings and goings… I could’ve had a Bakery, making delicious bread in a nice town.
And the thoughts continue….
– There is something I don’t know if it’s a glitch or this is how it goes. Instanced objects selection feels wonky. Say you crate an Empty and Instance a Collection into it, when you select it, it behaves normally, the stroke of your selection is visible…
-But if you create more instances of the same thing, the selection highlight doesn’t appear.
– The stroke highlight doesn’t appear. It is hard to tell if you have anything selected this way. Why doesn’t it just behave normally and highlight my selection?
Funny thing, if I’m in wireframe mode and select the original one, they all appear selected, even though only the original one is selected.
If I select the 3 copies and leave the original un-selected, I get nothing, no highlight of selection. That is very uncomfortable when you’re selection objects and you’re not even sure what you have selected.
– Where are the Collections that are not in use? As long as is even possible. The Heli file in 2.79 had several groups that when I opened it in 2.8, those Groups got interpreted as Collections. When I SHIFT + A and at the bottom in Collection Instance, when the list pops up, I can see the names of all the groups that were in 2.79 that are now Collections
Yet they don’t appear in the Scene Collection Menu.
And when I go into the Blender File, it lists the Collections there with Geometry in them, yet they are nowhere to be seen, not even in the viewport.
– Is there transparency in the viewport for geometry? In 2.79 you could enable “Transparency” for an object and in the material lower the alpha to have transparency. I can’t find how to get transparency in 2.8
– Ok ready to render, ready to render, aaaaaaand…. no big render button? or render animation button? Perhaps I’m in the wrong engine? How can this be? F12 just turns up the volume in the computer. Do I really have to go to Render –> Render Image, every time? I refuse to believe there is no Render Button. What am I doing wrong?
– Overlays and all kind of stuffs are visible during Viewport Cycles rendering now? In 2.79 when you kicked off the viewport render, non render-able went away and only the clean render was left. How come this is not the case now, feels very weird. Do I have to turn on and off the overlays every time? Is there a setting somewhere to get the old behavior back so Blender does it automatically for viewport renders?
– Why when I select and object and Numpad / to view it on local mode, if I kick off a viewport render all the other elements suddenly pop back up again, as if it got out of local view, but then if I cancel the viewport render, everything goes away again and it’s back to that sole object in local view. Must obviously be a glitch?
– This “Indirect Only” filter in Collection was making me loose my mind.
Not all the icons in the Collections menu are visible at the same time unless you turn them On in the filters. Icons being hidden by default can be a big problem.
The squiggly arrow being “On” for the objects inside that collection “Hoover-Engine” was making things non-render-able. When I rendered, objects inside the Collection were’t showing in the render and the little squiggly arrow icon in the filters was off, so I didn’t see the icon was enabled for that collection making me waste a lot of time trying to figure out what was going on.
– Still a bit confused on what the TV icon does. Globally disable in viewports? Does this mean in the workspaces areas?
– Don’t know if there is a way to re-order the workspaces tab, it seems as I can click and drag them to the order them as I want, but it doesn’t let me. Is the only option right click and “re-order to front”? That doesn’t help that much.
– I have no idea how I can now link the Heli with its rig in another file in 2.8 if Groups are no longer available. In 2.79 you selected which layers were visible when the linking happened, can we do that with collections? How about linking assets in another file and then CTRL + ALT + P to Make Proxy, will that still be the case now?