Blender 2.81: Viewport¶
Look Development¶
- Rendered shading mode option to use HDRI studio lights instead of scene lights and world, for both Cycles and Eevee. This mode can now be used for look development.
- LookDev mode was renamed to Material Preview. This mode will be aimed at interactive texturing and fast preview with Eevee.
- HDRI studio light strength can now be controlled in the shading popover.
- Cycles viewport option to display a render pass instead of the combined pass.
Viewport¶
- Each viewport can have its own set of visible collections (92736a7b75).
- Workbench matcaps can now be OpenEXR images with separate
diffuse
andspecular
layers. The layer nameddiffuse
will be affected by material, texture or random color, whilespecular
will not. - Mesh analysis overlay now supports meshes with modifiers, instead of only the original mesh.
- Image objects can now be set to display only in side views.
