This PR Updates the default colors of the Curve Handle types,
to increase readability and contrast.
Each color more different from each other to not be confusing.
Logic for the new colors:
* Purple/Dark blue is used for the `Vector` type to match the header
and sockets of Vector nodes.
* Red is used for `Auto` to show that they're locked and can't be
changed without converting the type.
* Pink/Salmon color is used for `Auto-Clamped` to be similar to `Auto`
while still being distinct.
* The remaining colors are chosen to be visually distinct from the
other colors.
This also fixes a problem caused by 1067112c11 (#145360) where
Free handle were left fully black. These black handles are extremely
hard to use with Grease Pencil objects, because Grease Pencil strokes
often are black. Because the `Free` handle selected color is also black,
handles do not show if they are selected.
Co-authored-by: Nika Kutsniashvili <nickberckley@gmail.com>
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/147335
All looking-glass icons in Blender were left-handed.
Most OS, applications, websites, even a simple image search shows that
these icons are more often depicted right-handed.
Flip all icons that include a looking-glass.
See PR for details and descriptions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/147206
Includes the following changes to the existing Locomotion system for VR Scene Inspection:
* new VR Navigation Preferences and VR Session Settings
* changes to XR raycast logic and its visualization
* new XR vignette that appears when moving
* snap turning
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144241
This adds new icons for the remaining two modifier Essentials assets
bundled with Blender in the `Generate` category.
(`Curve to Tube` and `Scatter on Surface`)
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/147115
All new and updated MatCaps from the #104285
These are 29 MatCaps in comparison to the old 24. The size went up from
1.5 MB to 2.2 MB.
Thanks to @DanielBystedt @jlampel @Mets and many of the community
members for the contributions and feedback.
See the PR for full details, including comparison images.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146591
In 3D Viewport theme settings there is "Active Spline" property, which behaves weirdly.
Color of that property is multiplied to color of curve handles. Even though it says active,
it's multiplied in selected and unselected states, for all curves all the time.
That doesn't make much sense, has no real value, and ends up only causing confusion.
Having this property on anything but pure black means that whatever colors you choose
for curve handles in Preferences isn't actually what you're getting them. If color is set to
high-saturation color it completely washes away all colors and makes it difficult to differentiate
between handle types.
I think there is no reason for this property to exist, so this PR just removes that property.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145360
When trying to find and open an older file, it is annoying when it is not in the
recent files list anymore. This patch increases the length of the recent files
list, without making the menu huge by making better use of menu-search.
Specifically the following is changed: * Number of remembered recent files is
increased from 20 to 200 by default. * The recent files menu is limited to 20
entries. * When activating menu search (by pressing space when in the menu), all
available recent files can be searched. * There is a new "More..." menu entry at
the bottom, which also activates the menu search.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146884
3D Viewport and Image Editor had theme colors for paint curve handle and pivot.
Paint curves are one of the stroke methods for brushes, and are generally not
widely used. To simplify theming it's best to remove those four properties and
use other shared colors instead.
We could use common curve colors for them, but they don't have point color
and handle point color is black, so we would need to add one more property
anyway and it would look bad as well.
Instead, use gizmo primary and secondary colors. Technically, paint curves
can be treated as gizmos, because they're interactive widgets in the viewport.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146777
IMPORTANT: This will force-enable this option in user preferences, as
part of the 5.0 versioning process. Users that do want to keep saving
uncompressed blendfiles will have to edit their user preferences
accordingly, and re-save them.
This commit does _not_ change the setting for an existing blendfile:
uncompressed blendfiles will keep being saved as uncompressed.
Implements #135735.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146172
Add theme settings for the Curve and CurveProfile widgets.
Even though the curve widget is used all over Blender, it never had its
own theme settings. It was using a mix of colors from the “regular”
toggle widget with text colors inherited from the editor.
Thanks to the recent cleanup and removal of so many redundant theme
options, we can now add new/missing settings without overwhelming
the theme.
See PR for details and screenshots.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146274
This PR generalizes properties for geometry (currently mesh only) attributes
found in 3D Viewport theme, namely:
- Combine "Edge Bevel" and "Vertex Bevel" into one "Bevel" property.
- Combine "Freestyle Edge Mark" and "Freestyle Face Mark" into one "Freestyle" property.
- Remove word "Edge" from Crease, Sharp, and Seam properties, to match others.
- Group all of the above together in the UI.
This is a breaking change (that will be handled with others in migration),
but doesn't introduce any visual changes in the default theme (and almost any theme).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146732
Refactor the OCIO config to use the updated OpenColorIO 2.x recommended
format, which places spaces like sRGB and Display P3 into a separate section
dedicated to display-referred colorspaces, and puts view transforms in their
own section as well.
View transform are no longer declared as color spaces, they are now rerouted
to cie_xyz_d65_interchange, and then from there go to the display colorspace.
Also remove the dedicated reverse LUT for AgX. Since view transforms are
no longer colorspaces, using them in a `- !<ColorSpaceTransform>` line no
longer works. The original way of re-using the inverse definition with
`- !<ColorSpaceTransform>` no longer works, it gets a bit troublesome. AgX
has never been able to perfectly invert, not even with this inverse LUT, so
might as well remove it.
Ref #144911
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145519
Mesh faces have a separate theme color for selected dots (1px dot in the center of the face),
in both the 3D Viewport and the Image Editor.
I don't think there is any justification for why that 1 pixel has to be a different color from rest
of the active face. Even if result isn't satisfying, we should be tweaking Face Selected color
for this purpose. 1 pixel doesn't deserve its own theme setting.
This PR removes property from both editors, and instead uses "Face Selected" color with alpha
hardcoded to 1 (removed properties didn't have alpha). Also note that dot is still visible in 3D viewport
because Face Selected color is different from Face Mode Selected color, which is used for faces
when dots are drawn.
There are no visual changes in default themes.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145364
The RNA icon was rotating on the wrong direction.
Technically this is mostly a DNA helix, but even RNA can be a
double-helix sometimes. And both cases (RNA and DNA) are supposed to
have a right-hand orientation.
This PR also removes the RNA_ADD icon which is not used anywhere.
Based on suggestion by Brady Johnston.
Ref: !146600
"Use Nodes" was removed in the compositor to simplify the compositing
workflow. This introduced a slight inconsistency with the Shader Node
Editor.
This PR removes "Use Nodes" for object materials.
For Line Style, no changes are planned (not sure how to preserve
compatibility yet).
This simplifies the state of objects; either they have a material or
they don't.
Backward compatibility:
- If Use Nodes is turned Off, new nodes are added to the node tree to
simulate the same material:
- DNA: Only `use_nodes` is marked deprecated
- Python API:
- `material.use_nodes` is marked deprecated and will be removed in
6.0. Reading it always returns `True` and setting it has no effect.
- `material.diffuse_color`, `material.specular` etc.. Are not used by
EEVEE anymore but are kept because they are used by Workbench.
Forward compatibility:
Always enable 'Use Nodes' when writing blend files.
Known Issues:
Some UI tests are failing on macOS
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/141278
Continues and depends on #145609, part of #140360 project.
Previously, all 5 animation/video editors had different properties
for Scrubbing/Markers region. This PR adds new Region panel for it,
so that all editors can share one color.
Text color in this region was coming from regular editor text color.
To differentiate between editors (as is the pattern already with other editors),
and allow more modular themeability of regions, new Text color is added
for that region as well.
Video in PR
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146113
Continuation of #140360
New common properties for Channel and Channel Selected,
used in animation editors.
Previously Dope Sheet, Graph Editor, NLA, and Movie Clip Editor
had separate properties for them.
Video and images inside the PR.
---
> [!important]
- Channels looked different in Dope Sheet and Graph Editor. In the former,
they were same color as the background, so only labels and icons were visible,
in the latter they had a darker color, so their outline was visible. We need to pick
which design we go for now that they're combined. I chose color from Graph
Editor for now, with alpha from Dope Sheet, since only that editor uses alpha.
---
There is a confusion with names of channel colors. In 4.5 there is:
- - "Channel" (singular, blue color) which refers to objects, actions,
and action slots that hold/combine channels.
- - "Channels" (plural, black color) which refers to individual channels.
This goes against how we name things. In theme, especially, we refer to object
colors as "Object", singular, not Objects, plular. Same goes for all elements except
this one, where individual elements are referred in plural.
To lessen the confusion, and also avoid unnecessary breaking changes in the
future (in case we want to rename blue things, which seems likely), in this PR
I swap those names. Main reason is that black color marks individual channels,
so it should be singular, and blue colors are combination of many channels,
so they should be plural. Otherwise even talking about them is awkward.
Note that renaming isn't a breaking change, because we already "broke" them
by moving them to common path from individual editors.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146091
Continuing recent attempts to combine theme settings
and reduce complexity. part of #140360
This PR adds new root panel in theme called "Regions" which for now
includes two subpanels:
# Asset Shelf
This is just moving asset shelf from root to regions, where
it's more appropriate and less noisy.
No functional changes. (alternative to #144267)
# Channels
Previously known as "Theme Space List", or "Source List",
but in user interface we refer this region as "Channels".
This region is shared by all animation/video editors, and each had
a separate panel for theme properties. Now they're combined, and all
editors follow settings defined in Regions -> Channels.
Additionally, "Source List Title" property, which was never used is removed.
Properties are also renamed to be more intuitive and shorter.
# Toolbar / Sidebar
Previously was registered separately on every single editor. This allowed
for some extra customization, but in 5.0 need for this is reduced very much,
because elements drawn in those regions (tabs & tools) are also generalized,
so it makes sense to want same background color for them as well.
> This replaces 46 properties with 5, reducing the total by 41.
> Videos in PR
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145609
This commit changes the Blender macOS bundle and blender-thumbnailer
app extension bundle Info.plist `CFBundleVersion` key to use the "short"
version string (X.X.X) instead of the "long" version string (X.X.X +
date), following the specs.[^1]
This fixes an issue with Xcode bundle archiving where the previous long
version would cause an error to be thrown during archive validation:
```
ERROR: [ContentDelivery.Uploader.6000007BD0C0] CFBundleVersion, “5.0.0 2025-09-09”,
must be composed of one to three period-separated integers. (-19239)
```
The previous "long" version string is still used by the `CFBundleGetInfoString`
key and thus still shows up in the application informations.
See Pull Request for app preview before/after screenshots comparaison.
[^1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/information-property-list/cfbundleversion?language=objc
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/146030
Expose the "Mute Links" add "Add Reroute" operator as active tools
in the node editor similar to the "Links Cut" tool.
This also works around #134153 by adding additional tools in the same
button group to the toolbar.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/140429
* Add ACES SDR to HDR displays
* Add ACES reference gamut compression look.
* Name non-HDR AgX for HDR displays "AgX - SDR", consistent with ACES and
makes it more clear that this may not be the one you want for HDR. This
required updating test blend files.
* Mark all non-sRGB view transform colorspaces as inactive, so they don't
pollute the colorspaces list. The HDR ones were already inactive.
Ref #144911
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145820
Fixed user facing bugs.
Found via `codespell -S "*.desktop,*.diff,./intern,./extern,./locale,./AUTHORS,./source/blender/blenlib/tests/BLI_string_utf8_test.cc,./doc/license/bf-members.txt" -L accessort,abd,aci,alo,ans,ba,bording,childrens,clen,constructin,datas,dependees,domin,eary,ege,eiter,elemt,eles,enew,espace,finded,fiter,fpt,groupd,hist,implementating,indext,ine,infront,inout,inouts,inpt,ist,lene,listenter,lod,maks,masia,mata,mis,mke,nam,nd,ned,opose,ot,outlow,parm,parms,passt,pinter,pixelx,poin,pres,ptd,re-usable,re-use,re-used,re-uses,re-using,ridiculus,schem,soler,strack,suh,te,tesselate,tham,ue,vai,varius,wew`
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145825
This PR updates the VSE strip modifiers interface.
It now uses the same design as the object modifiers.
Changes:
* Except for the "Mask Input" subpanel, the modifier UIs are unchanged.
* Modifiers can now be rearranged using drag & drop.
* Additionally, there is now an active strip modifier. This is exposed
though python via `strip.modifiers.active`.
This is in part for !139634 which needs the concept of an active modifier.
Notes:
* The `modifier.cc` file included all the implementation of all modifiers.
With the addition of a another new callback in this PR, this file was
getting quite big so I split everything out into individual files for all
modifiers. The modifiers are getting registered at launch.
* The modifier panels are getting added using a UI template
(`template_strip_modifiers`) very similar to the object modifiers.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/145367
Continuing #140360
This PR moves keyframe theme properties from editors into Common.
Besides Dope Sheet, keyframe properties were in:
- Sequencer (almost all types, and might use more in the future)
- 3D Viewport, where the active object name overlay used a separate Object Keyframe color when
it had keyframes on the current frame. Now it uses the common Keyframe Selected color, instead
of having its own property just for this little text.
- Keyframes in Movie Clip Editor were hard-coded white, now they use a common Keyframe color.
Selected colors used wrong long key selected color, now they use common Keyframe Selected color.
- Movie Clip Editor also used separate colors for what it called "Strips", but they are visually
the exact same thing as "long keys" in Dope Sheet, so they use common long key colors now.
There are Keyframe Border properties in Dope Sheet, Sequencer, and NLA, but they're not shared
because they're drawn on very different backgrounds, in different sizes, with different fill colors, so
it's difficult to make one color work for all of them, and it can restrict customization and accessibility.
Video in PR
---
Details:
- Long keys in Dope Sheet/Clip Editor and Strips in NLA used the same internal "strip" attribute.
Those needed to be separated to properly use long key colors in common, without worrying
about affecting unrelated things, and those two are as unrelated as they can get.
To properly separate them I added new "long_key" attributes, and corresponding
`TH_LONGKEY` and `TH_LONGKEY_SELECT`.
- Long keys in Movie Clip Editor had hardcoded alpha. Now they use alpha of the theme color.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144259
Selected tracks in the Movie Clip Editor's Dope Sheet used hard-coded color.
Added a new theme property for them, and previously hard-coded color is now just a default.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144265
This PR adds a slip tool in the toolbar with its own custom icon for
applying slips using the mouse. This is useful for e.g. tablets where a
keyboard is not handy and a button would be best to activate the
operator.
There is also a custom cursor that appears when hovering over valid,
slippable strips (and a "stop" icon when the strip cannot be slipped).
Alt may be used in order to ignore slipping connected strips when using
the tool, similar to selection logic. The slip tool only performs its
sole function of slipping and as such does not change the selection
state.
In the future, we can also add "slide" functionality to the same tool,
giving it multiple functions.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143513
* Bundled ICC profiles for display spaces supported by Blender, and
embed them in the image file when saving.
* Verified to work for PNG, TIFF, JPEG and WebP, but not all file
formats support this.
* No ICC profile is written for sRGB currently. It would be a matter
of adding an icc file, however this may be a breaking change for
some use cases.
* Fix save as render of EXR files not properly changing the image
colorspace to match.
Uses CC0 licensed ICC files from the Compact ICC Profiles project.
This does not include support for saving HDR images. While there exist
ICC profiles for PQ, they are not well supported and the preferred method
for HDR is to write CICP tags. However OpenImageIO support for this is
still under development.
Ref #144911
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144565
These are built into OpenColorIO, and will start working well with the upcoming
wide gamut display changes.
The ACES 2.0 view transform provides an alternative to AgX and Filmic, with
similar purpose. It is also useful for those working in an ACES pipeline when
the full ACES OpenColorIO config is not needed.
Rec.2100-PQ display is a HDR display, and will be what you select when wanting
to see HDR (and wide gamut) colors, and export them to HDR video.
Ref #144911
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/144565
There are many accumulated unused properties in theme. Generally, it's a mess,
lot of copy-paste errors and leftovers between editors, shared functions with no
actual use, etc. Some were just added and never used, like Pattern and Layout nodes,
which were meant to be used with Texture Nodes I believe, but it never happened.
Overall 19 properties removed:
- 3D Viewport: Edge UV Face Select
- 3D Viewport: Last Selected Point
- Dope Sheet/Timeline: Value Sliders
- Dope Sheet/Timeline: View Sliders
- Nonlinear Animation: View Sliders
- Video Sequencer: Window Sliders
- Graph Editor/Drivers: Window Sliders
- Graph Editor/Drivers: Vertex Bevel
- Graph Editor/Drivers: Vertex Group Unreferenced
- Image/UV Editor: Vertex Bevel
- Image/UV Editor: Vertex Group Unreferenced
- Image/UV Editor: Freestyle Face Mask
- Image/UV Editor: Face Retopology
- Image/UV Editor: Face Orientation Front
- Image/UV Editor: Face Orientation Back
- Node Editors: Selected Text
- Node Editors: Pattern Node
- Node Editors: Layout Node
- Video Sequencer: Draw Action
---
Details:
- Made Vertex Bevel and Vertex Group Unreferenced colors in `rna_def_userdef_theme_spaces_vertex`
optional, so that they don't appear in Graph Editor and UV Editor theme properties, where they're unused.
- Same thing in `rna_def_userdef_theme_spaces_face` for face attributes (Freestyle Mark, Retopology),
so that they don't appear in UV Editor, where they're unused. Also did same for face orientation colors,
but used different argument for them, since they could be used in future (remember seeing PR for this).
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143782
This PR adds an optional block alert level, defaulting to none. Then
for error-level alerts only it adds a red line and a color icon.
Dialogs with other alert types do not change at all. This also adds
a UI_alert function to create such dialogs.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/134084
Continuing #140360, after 39c066ee53
Moving curve handle colors & size from space editors into common theme properties.
They are now shared by 3D Viewport, Image Editor, Graph Editor, and Movie Clip Editor,
instead of each of them having their own properties.
(Video in PR)
---
Details:
- NURB U/V lines, active spline, and last selected point colors were defined
in `rna_def_userdef_theme_spaces_curves` but were optional and only called by
3D viewport. Since no other editor calls that function anymore, I removed it and
moved those properties directly inside `rna_def_userdef_theme_space_view3d`.
- In Image Editor & Movie Clip Editor (Mask mode), curves don't ever show
selection colors, and Vector handles are generally never visible, that is
bug/missing in Blender in general, not a result of this PR.
- Handle vertex size were included in Dope Sheet and NLA, where handles don't
exist. Now as a side effect they're removed as well.
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/143762
This commit adds the option to open the Preferences editor in a
maximized area instead of a new window. This is done by adding a
"Preferences" field to the Interface > Editor > Temporary Editor
preferences. The default value is set to "New Window" keeping the
current behavior.
Implements: #142665
Pull Request: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/142681
