Cycles - Viewport Render Image

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PROBLEM
Viewport Render Image operator doesn’t work for Cycles’s Rendered shading mode.
Clearly mentioned in Blender’s Manual, but completely confusing when you try render in Blender.

ViewportRenderImage
ViewportRenderImage960×540 230 KB

There is not a single indicator what is going on here.
Even for me as experienced user I was hunting some version/GPU issue until I started to search in manual. (I came up to this issue via this Q thread.)

SOLUTION
Would be really helpful to disable this

  • like nothing happens by choosing it from menu + visible warning text at bottom row with description what is wrong here
  • or grey it out in View menu (including Quick Favorites) to prevent access when Rendered shading is selected

Thank you make our lives better :slight_smile:

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I agree- if an operator only works with Eevee and Workbench, not Cycles, that operator shouldn’t be usable in Cycles. This is a common pattern across Blender; for example, Bake operators aren’t available while using Eevee

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