Questions tagged [interface]
Questions pertaining to Blender's user interface, such as theming, scripting and operating the interface.
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Play/animate images, spritesheets or video files in 'template_icon_view'
I want to "play" some animation in this UI space, the template_icon_view:
I can load all the images I want, for example:
I know that the gif format is ...
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Operator tooltip from layout text
The concept is to make a panel layout that emulates the workspace (screen) layout. While testing I have set all the buttons to be the Splash Screen operator.
An image of how this looks for five ...
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Hotkey to navigate scenes in Blender 2.8?
In Blender 2.7, i could change the layout with Ctrl + ← and Ctrl + →.
In 2.7, the scene was layout dependent, allowing me to navigate the scene this way.
However, in Blender 2....
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How do I change the width of the Adjust Last Operation panel?
I've done this simple operator taken from templates. How can I change the width of the Adjust Last Operation panel?
I tried scale_x and ...
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How can I make the text of my panel in bold or italic? this is blender python related
Basically what I want is to make my panel header in bold and other text in my panel to be italic.
For example: I want the text 'settings' with the preferences icon to be in bold.
This is the code for ...
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How to detect if Blender is currently rendering
I would like to hide certain parts of the UI automatically as soon as the user hits the Render Animation button.
I'm looking for something similar to ...
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Object Picker Modal Operator?
I saw this question this morning and i'm also quite interested in a Picker modal operator, so I did tinker a bit and achieve a somewhat beginning of a working code but I encountered some problems ...
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Apply face normal orientation to object Local Pivot Point orientation?
Is there a simple way to "apply" a custom transform orientation to an objects pivot?
The purpose is to set the faces normal as the new pivot of the object.
Duarte Farrajota Ramos' cube merge trick ...
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Wacom tablet acting oddly in 2.71
Just putting this out there in case anyone has any ideas.
I have an older Wacom Intous2 and it still works great. I'm on Windows7. On Blender 2.71 and earlier, my Wacom tablet always worked perfectly, ...
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Having trouble panning/rotating with two-fingers on trackpad
I'm having trouble with something that's hopefully pretty basic. I just got a windows laptop after using a macbook for a while. I was surprised to find that blender was not acting the same. On my mac, ...
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How does blender make native icons with different colors?
I'm making an addon for blender and I want to change the color of the native icons used in the custom layout for a better visual experience.
I made this simple grid to display all possible icons, but ...
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Dragging new link to an already linked node input doesn't delete the existing link: it switches it to the next input instead. How to avoid that?
Blender seems to have this default behavior when editing node trees:
If I have a node with an input that is already receiving a link, and I drag another link to that input, the existing link isn't ...
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Enable show keyboard-shortcuts in Toolbar?
Is there a way to preview the keyboard shortcuts of a common command in the standard toolbar much like this?
I've been told I should use the F3/spacebar search options but retrieval adds time to ...
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Show number of Tris selected
Is there a reason it doesn't show you the number of Tris selected? Seems benighted to me. I really need this feature.
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Instancing a space theme with a draw callback
In a somewhat tongue in cheek answer to https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/197340/15543 have come across the possibility of having one instance of a 3d view showing a different theme than another.
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