2.8 Hurdles and Roadblocks

@waylow Yes! I feel like a legit bug-buster. There’s something strange, in the blender file, who you gonna call?

@williamatics Go to the outliner and click the filter menue (second button top right)->
klick the 2nd button in the “Restriction toggles row”.
-Now you can toggle selectable/unselectable in the outliner.
Hope that helps!

I am making a staircase model in Blender for somebody , and it has glass panels. In cycles, the glass behaves as expected (you can see through it and it looks realistic) , however, as you can see in the image below, in Eevee , it reflects the HDRi environment 100% which looks hideous . 

I am still getting to grips with 2.8 and Eevee so can anybody offer any help please? 

Eevee :

Cycles :

@smurfmier1985 The nun strikes again, I though she was locked in her room. 

Last month I mentioned that the Eevee render engine in 2.8 doesn’t support holdout functionality for render masking.  I learned today that this WILL be added in 2.81; in fact it was just recently added to the nightly beta builds.  So there’s that problem solved I suppose – no need to put it in your video, Wayne.  My understanding is 2.81 will come out somewhere around November (though we know how release dates like to drift).  

I can’t find the answers to these questions anywhere else so I will post them here.

I have been using 2.8 for a few weeks now and have noticed the following:

– no way to select through objects. Previously when you clicked on something and kept clicking it cycled through the objects under the cursor

– can’t select objects in wire frame mode

– can’t box select things ever (c select works). I’m assuming this is just a temporary bug of the build I downloaded

– is there anyway to get rid of the spiral menu and get the vertical list back? The spiral, click and move option is only quicker if you remember where everything is!

@spikeyxxx Well, that’s a bit embarrassing because that’s all it was. I thought I had downloaded the official version but I must have somehow got a previous build that wasn’t complete. Uninstalled and re-installed and now everything works. Thank you!