<p dir="ltr">can the user ui be drawn inside the viewport? like a overlay?</p>
<p dir="ltr">like imagine a transparent window on top of the viewport that was a plane containing the ui, mousing over gets the uv, and translates it into a mouseover context?</p>
<p dir="ltr">this way custom panels could be added very very easily, panels would also be very good for VR and be future proof.</p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 14, 2016 3:20 PM, "Dalai Felinto" <<a href="mailto:dfelinto@gmail.com">dfelinto@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi there [*],<br>
<br>
We haven't discussed UI (user interface) for the viewport yet. Even<br>
during the Sprint we focused on the internal functionalities, as<br>
opposed to how the user would access it.<br>
<br>
There is a lot of overlap with the layer-manager work Julian Eisel<br>
(Severian) is leading. So after some back and forth, we (Brecht,<br>
Julian, Mike and I) seemed to have reached an agreement on the final<br>
design (or rather, the principles behind the design) - guys correct me<br>
if I'm wrong.<br>
<br>
The idea is to leave which objects to show, and overrides handling<br>
outside the viewport. This will be handled by the layer manager<br>
project.<br>
<br>
Options such as having the main object fully shaded with the rest of<br>
the scene with clay render will be provided as built-in shading<br>
options. Not configurable per "layer".<br>
<br>
A visual draft of the UI is here [**]:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1CDvy3ClsuIol7PjN25v04GgVbHg7uEN1VEQ9vmBPlyU/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>drawings/d/<wbr>1CDvy3ClsuIol7PjN25v04GgVbHg7u<wbr>EN1VEQ9vmBPlyU/edit?usp=<wbr>sharing</a><br>
<br>
As always, let us know any thoughts you may have on any of this.<br>
<br>
<br>
Related messages:<br>
* <a href="https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-viewport/2016-October/000231.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.blender.org/<wbr>pipermail/bf-viewport/2016-<wbr>October/000231.html</a><br>
* <a href="https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-viewport/2016-October/000233.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.blender.org/<wbr>pipermail/bf-viewport/2016-<wbr>October/000233.html</a><br>
<br>
<br>
For anyone interested on the thought process, this is an early design<br>
I presented today, on top of which we discussed.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1_z4EihqVTidAyg3DtzS84J1XZZSScF8fuQFIbzme0HA/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>drawings/d/1_<wbr>z4EihqVTidAyg3DtzS84J1XZZSScF8<wbr>fuQFIbzme0HA/edit?usp=sharing</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[*] - (cross posting on bf-viewport and bf-interface, but let's keep<br>
the discussion on bf-viewport please)<br>
<br>
[**] - on google docs to gather feedback, and later to be moved to the wiki<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Dalai<br>
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