There is some hope for more Viewport 2.0 features. If you dig through the files there is a lot of unfinished code and interface features that have been commented out. There are stubs for viewport bloom/glow and a few other VP2.0 features. In the CGFX files there are files for cgfx shadow code (including soft shadows), just…
I listed some examples that show that someone at Autodesk is working on Viewport 2.0. Its seems like there simply are not enough man hours devoted to it. As a new viewport renderer (VP2.0) they have the opportunity to re-write the transparency sorting features, for example take a look at the drop-down box in VP2.0 listing…