[Bf-committers] Reset to Defaults...

[PabloVazquez.org]

>From a user perspective, 'Restore to Defaults' is very, very useful.
Especially for beginners, but even from an "advanced" user perspective.

Not all settings have a 0 or 1 value, there are certain options that have a
very specific value by default**, and there are reasons for that.

After playing around with the sliders sometimes you forget what the default
was, and want to go back to a "reasonable" value. I usually just open a new
Blender and check there, but having a "Reset to Default" setting is more
convenient.

**many options come to mind, for example how to remember that the default
amount of minimum bounces on cycles is 3? Or that the default density for
smoke domain's raising speed is -0.0010? This slider goes from -5.0 to 5.0.
Same for simulation timestep for particles physics, default is 0.040, but
this slider goes from 0.010 to 10.000.

Anyway these are just a few, but these examples are all over Blender.

+1 on having a default value.

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On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I talked with Ton about this and he suggest to remove the 'Restore to
> Defaults' button.
>
> Can you give some good examples as to why its needed?
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Harley Acheson
> <harley.acheson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Being able to right-click on UI elements, select "Reset to Defaults" and
> > have it do so
> > (instead of setting to zeros) has been a long-standing "to do" item.  It
> > took very many
> > hours but I did so for over 200 of the most obvious defaults. I then
> > changed the way it was
> > done as per a request by Campbell, then changed it again as per Brecht.
> >
> > It has been languishing in the tracker for 3 months now.  It is 185k,
> > affects many files, and
> > it will only get harder to commit as more times passes. Needless to say I
> > will be a bit
> > disappointed if it just becomes stale and is forgotten.
> >
> >
> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=32894&group_id=9&atid=127
> >
> > Cheers, Harley
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