Maniphest T66807

Blender 2.8 release candidate shows no available Cycles Render Devices
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Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo)
Authored By
John Hunt (jrh433)
Jul 12 2019, 9:02 PM
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  • BF Blender
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dark999 (dark999)
John Hunt (jrh433)
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo)

Description

System Information
Operating system: MacOS 10.14.5
Graphics card: Radeon Pro 580 8GB

Blender Version
Broken in: Blender 2.80 2019-07-11 Release Candidate
Worked in this version: (optional) Blender 2.80 2019-07-09 3b4054cb586f

Short description of error
Installed the release candidate version of Blender 2.80.
The system settings shows no available Cycles Render Devices. The whole section for Cycles render devices is blank in the settings. No Cycles option on Scene/Render Engine properties settings.
The beta build from 2019-07-09 worked fine. The settings in the beta build shows options for 'NONE | CUDA | OPENCL'. While CUDA and OPENCL no longer work on my Mac (sigh)
the NONE option in this beta build works with CPU rendering just fine.

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
Based on the default startup or an attached .blend file (as simple as possible).
I Re-downloaded and installed Blender 2.80 RC and got the same issue--no Cycles renderer

Related Objects

Mentioned Here
T66754: macOS missing shortcuts and menu entries with 2.80 RC1
rB3b4054cb586f: Revert strip start property to strip_start

Event Timeline

John Hunt (jrh433) created this task.Jul 12 2019, 9:02 PM
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Jul 12 2019, 9:05 PM
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) claimed this task.
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) added a subscriber: Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo).

as noted in the release notes, opencl support has been dropped for mac

https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.80/Cycles#GPU_rendering

John Hunt (jrh433) added a comment.Jul 12 2019, 9:13 PM

You are misunderstanding the issue. The Cycles render engine basically DOES NOT EXIST in any form when I run the release candidate for Blender 2.80.
The settings page shows a header Cycles options but nothing else--the next line in the System settings is the header for Memory & Limits
The BETA 2.80 from two days previously--2019-07-09 allows me to use Cycles with the CPU. The settings page shows 'NONE | CUDA | OPENCL' settings under Cycles render options,
even though the CUDA and OPENCL options are not available for my Mac configuration.
The Release Candidate build for 2019-07-11 has no options for using Cycles whatever on my Mac.
This is a new problem that just appeared in the last two days.

The the issues has nothing to do with OPENCL or CUDA on the Mac.

John Hunt (jrh433) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Unknown Status.Jul 12 2019, 9:21 PM
Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) added a comment.Jul 12 2019, 9:25 PM

ah yes, that's a know issue, has been fixed, there should be a download link in T66754 while the new build synchronizes across the mirrors

Ray Molenkamp (LazyDodo) closed this task as a duplicate of T66754: macOS missing shortcuts and menu entries with 2.80 RC1.Jul 12 2019, 9:25 PM
dark999 (dark999) added a subscriber: dark999 (dark999).Jul 12 2019, 9:34 PM

@ jrh433 download new Blender 2.80RC1 for OSX check the problem again. It seems that Blender 2.80RC1 OSX has encountered problems that were corrected late this afternoon.