The previous design is rather old and has a couple of problems:
* Scalability: The current solution of adding little icon buttons next to the
data-block name field doesn't scale well. It only works if there's a small
number of operations. We need to be able to place more items there for better
data-block management. Especially with the introduction of library overrides.
* Discoverability: It's not obvious what some of the icons do. They appear and
disappear, but it's not obvious why some are available at times and others
not.
* Unclear Status: Currently their library status (linked, indirectly linked,
broken link, library override) isn't really clear.
* Unusual behavior: Some of the icon buttons allow Shift or Ctrl clicking to
invoke alternative behaviors. This is not a usual pattern in Blender.
This patch does the following changes:
* Adds a menu to the right of the name button to access all kinds of operations
(create, delete, unlink, user management, library overrides, etc).
* Make good use of the "disabled hint" for tooltips, to explain why buttons are
disabled. The UI team wants to establish this as a good practise.
* Use superimposed icons for duplicate and unlink, rather than extra buttons
(uses less space, looks less distracting and is a nice + consistent design
language).
* Remove fake user and user count button, they are available from the menu now.
* Support tooltips for superimposed icons (committed mouse hover feedback to
master already).
* Slightly increase size of the name button - it was already a bit small
before, and the move from real buttons to superimposed icons reduces usable
space for the name itself.
* More clearly differentiate between duplicate and creating a new data-block.
The latter is only available in the menu.
* Display library status icon on the left (linked, missing library, overridden,
asset)
* Disables "Make Single User" button - in review we weren't sure if there are
good use-cases for it, so better to see if we can remove it.
Note that I do expect some aspects of this design to change still. I think some
changes are problematic, but others disagreed. I will open a feedback thread on
devtalk to see what others think.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8554
Reviewed by: Bastien Montagne
Design discussed and agreed on with the UI team, also see T79959.
In ad85256e71 the "Show Group Colors" option was changed from a
per-editor option to a user preference. Since so many people wanted to
turn this option off, this makes sense. However, this move caused some
confusion because the option was just gone from the menu.
This commit adds a dummy menu item. It's disabled, and the tooltip
explains that the option can now be found in Preferences.
T83390 was created to track the removal of these hints.
Reviewed by: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9735
Move the "Show Group Colors" toggle from a per-editor option to a single
user preference in the Animation preferences. The Grease Pencil
animation channel side panel allows picking a channel color; this now
shows a message when channel colors are disabled.
The old "Show Group Colors" toggle had to be set per editor, and was on
by default. This meant that disabling group colors would require an
action for every file, for every editor. It is very hard to select a
color that works both as bone color in the 3D Viewport (needs to be
bright there) as well as the channel list (needs to be dark there), most
animators turn channel list colors off.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9391
Add "Selection to" as prefix for those menu items that move the selected
keyframes to something, for both the Key → Snap menu and the Shift+S pie
menu.
No functional changes.
This was missed in rB477d983c2e8ab298cbf638d5aadd77fad9c2f677
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9304
Approximately 141 changes of capitalization to conform to MLA title style.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8392
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
Avoid overwriting user-chosen `SACTION_SLIDERS` flag when switching the
Dope Sheet editor to Shape Key mode. The Shape Key mode now ignores the
flag, and always shows the sliders.
The obvious limitation is that you can't hide the sliders in the Shape
Key editor anymore
Reviewed By: looch, sybren
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9121
Update Dopesheet header to include missing buttons, remove Scene Active only buttton and also removed duplicated search box.
The removed options come from old 2.7x version and they are not required now.
Reviewed By: mendio, pepeland
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7107
The Extrapolation Mode menu in the graph editor channel list was
incorrectly using the operator for the Action/Dopesheet editor. The
operator was even missing in the generic dopesheet hotkeys, so
{key Shift E} was listed as hotkey but didn't work. This is now all
fixed.
EasingType was implemented rBdaccaa713b6e for the GraphEditor (but never
made it to the Dopesheet). If you can select Easing Mode in the
DopeSheet, then you should also be able to select the associated Easing
Type.
Thanks @lichtwerk for the initial implementation.
Maniphest Tasks: T65076
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6094
This commit is a full refactor of the grease pencil modules including Draw Engine, Modifiers, VFX, depsgraph update, improvements in operators and conversion of Sculpt and Weight paint tools to real brushes.
Also, a huge code cleanup has been done at all levels.
Thanks to @fclem for his work and yo @pepeland and @mendio for the testing and help in the development.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6293
Add new icons and panels Grease Pencil Dopesheet to manage layers without having the properties panel visible.
Also, the icons are in the same order in Dopesheet, Layers and Material list to keep consistency.
As the number of columns for icons is limited to 3 and we also need use a factor, I have impleted the change using slider area. Also, the slider option is enabled by default for 2D Template.
See T72026 for more info.
Reviewed By: mendio, pepeland, billreynish
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D6328
Instead of having the option to show marker lines,
make the marker region optional.
- Added a Show Markers entry in the View menu of the animation editors.
- If the markers region is not active then the Marker menu gets hidden.
- Removed marker menu from the driver editor
and don't allow to use marker operators.
This option was doing nothing in Blender 2.80.
I don't really see a reason for keeping it around.
Reviewers: campbellbarton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5552
Allows to disable keyframes from movie clips in dopesheet.
Reviewers: brecht
Reviewed By: brecht
Subscribers: sebastian_k
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D5203
The main reason for this change is to allow setting the
active frame with the left mouse button, while still being
able to select e.g. keyframes with the same mouse button.
The solution is to introduce a new scrubbing region with
a specialized keymap. There are a couple of related todos,
that will be handled in separate commits.
Those are listed in D4654.
This solves T63193.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4654
Reviewers: brecht, billreynish
Each space had separate operators, duplicating logic.
Use RNA properties instead so adding the ability to toggle other
region types (floating redo region for eg) doesn't need to have an
extra operator per space type.
It's also nicer to show a check-box for something which can be toggled.
staticmethod shouldn't be used unless it's necessary,
in that case a comment should be included especially when
subclassing non-staticmethods from RNA.
In keeping with convention to match code & UI naming.
- No user visible changes.
- Include 'menu' in the name since context is an overloaded term.
- While a few of these are panels, from a user perspective they are
still context menus.
This also includes fixed/slighly refactored drawing code for marker lines.
The old code used the wrong height.
Reviewers: brecht
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D4411
This commit adds a datablock filtering option for cache files channels,
so that a shot with lots of these in addition to standard animation
(e.g. the Spring production files) don't become bogged down by these.
Furthermore, these channels also respect the "Only Selected" toggle too now.
With the new automatic handle algorithm, it is possible to do a lot
of the animation via keyframes without touching the curves. It is
however necessary to change the keyframe interpolation and handle
types in certain cases. Currently the dopesheet/action editor
allows changing the types, but does not show them in any way.
To fix, add a new menu option to display this information. For handle
type, it is represented using the shape of the key icons: diamond for
Free, clipped diamond for Aligned, square for Vector, circle for Auto
Clamp, and cirle with dot for Automatic.
Non-bezier interpolation is a property of intervals between keys,
so it is marked by drawing lines, similar to holds. In this initial
version, only the fact of non-bezier interpolation is displayed,
without distinguishing types. For summaries, the line is drawn at
half alpha if not all curves in the group are non-bezier.
In addition, it is sometimes helpful to know the general direction
of change of the curve, and which keys are extremes. This commit
also adds an option to highlight extremes, based on comparing the
keyed values with adjacent keys. Half-intensity display is used
for overshot bezier extremes, or non-uniform summaries.
Reviewers: brecht, aligorith, billreynish
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3788
* Text editor word wrap, line numbers & syntax toggles now use consistent icons
that don’t change when you enable or disable them.
* Replaced icon toggle buttons in the snapping popover with normal checkboxes
and descriptive text labels. This makes it clearer which item is the main
radio button, is more consistent with other popovers, and allows us to use
more descriptive text.
* Added correct icons for grease pencil add menu.
* Added bespoke icons for grease pencil modifiers.
* Added icon for particle instance modifier.
* Added icon for fake user on & off states.
* Added correct icons for enabling/disabling modifiers in the dopesheet &
f-curve editor.
* Made it so the restrict viewport & restrict render toggles for modifier
update correctly when enabled or disabled, by flipping the order in the
icon sheet. This also required changing the outliner to match.
* Removed the few old remaining icons in the old style and made sure to replace
the last places where they were used.
* Updated many icons to be clearer & more consistent.
