[Bf-committers] [Bf-blender-cvs] SVN commit: /data/svn/bf-blender [24188] trunk/blender/source/blender/ editors/datafiles/B.blend.c: B.blend update

[William Reynish]

Hi Matt,

My idea for the different screens is to provide quick access to all of  
Blenders main features: modeling, texturing, rendering, compositing,  
video editing and game creation. Most of these tasks usually involve  
more than one editor at a time though, and so I thought it a good idea  
to include them as screens. That said, I agree that the 'Properties'  
screen isn't really important in that context - I included it because  
I remember Andy making a screen like that during Peach for his second  
monitor. But those more 'special' setups can be omitted from the  
shipped screens. The 'Quad View' screen also doesn't fit in that  
paradigm, but was included to make this easier to find. People coming  
from other apps might appreciate a quick way of getting to this, but  
to be honest it's not that much faster than enabling it within the  
Default screen, so it could be removed.

Regarding the other screens I don't mind receiving feedback. The 3D  
view in the compositing screen is useful for seeing which layers are  
visible, and what scene is active. Of course this only applies when  
compositing the output of the renderer, so it may be more useful to  
have two image editors, one for viewing the composite output and one  
for viewing the current viewer node.

Cheers,

-William


On 30 Oct, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Matt Ebb wrote:

>
> On 31/10/2009, at 7:13 AM, Thomas Dinges wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>> i am not sure if the "properties screen" is useful...i mean who needs
>> soo much options at once?
>> The default b.blend shouldnt contain every possibility you can
>> create ;-)
>
> I agree with this. I think it's nice to have a couple of presets, but
> 'less is more'. Blender is really easy to customise, and you're never
> going to be able to come up with preset screens that will fit
> everyone's workflow -  None of the current ones really work for me, so
> I have to go and delete them all. I also think this 'less is more'
> applies to the screens themselves - I really don't like having all
> sorts of tiny subwindows (like 3d views in comp screen??) - it makes
> the default ui look cluttered and complex, and people can add that
> themselves very easily.
>
> cheers,
>
> Matt
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