[Bf-blender-npr] textured strokes in Freestyle

[Vicente]

Hi,

Great news.

About the UI I would propose to add a minimal texture selector in the 
Freestyle panel and a button under it that would go to the selected 
texture in the standard texture panel.
Of course I agree with the texture UI problem. Anyway I don't see a good 
solution for this. So perhaps the only option right now is to create a 
new type of texture in the standard texture system.

Regards,

Vicente




On mán 21.apr 2014 04:49, Tamito KAJIYAMA wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
>   >> What remains as a question for now is where to put texture-related
>   >> options in the GUI. At the moment, all texture options for Freestyle
>   >> strokes are in the Properties window > Render Layers tab > Freestyle
>   >> Line Style panel > newly added "Textures" tab. I personally found this
>   >> location intuitive, because everything related to Freestyle is available
>   >> within the Freestyle Line Style panel.
>   >
>   > I agree with this placement as the more intuitive choice.
>
> Cool, thanks for the support.
>
>   >> An obvious alternative is to move the Freestyle texture options to the
>   >> Properties window > Textures tab. This solution seems more consistent
>   >> with other texture options available in Blender (for materials, worlds
>   >> and brushes).
>   >
>   > I actually think this is a UI design problem in Blender -- there is a
> weird
>   > state-sensitive behavior for the "Textures" tab in the Properties
> window, in
>   > that where it goes depends on what tab you had clicked previously, e.g.:
>   >
>   > "World", "Textures"   -> Texture for World background
>   > "Material", "Textures" -> Texture for currently-selected object
>   >
>   > I don't think any other tabs in Blender behave like that; it takes some
>   > getting used to; and I think it contributes to errors / lost time
> even after
>   > I've learned it.
>
> I fully agree with the observation that the present way of context-
> dependent switching between Properties tabs is very confusing. It's
> a pity if Freestyle has to add another level of complexity to the
> already complicated UI components.
>
> I guess core Blender developers are aware of this UI design problem
> and have accepted it (at least for now). It would be nice if the
> proposed inclusion of textured strokes into Blender triggers a UI
> revision to address the problem from a more general perspective.
> I would definitely try to get some of the core Blender developers
> involved in this discussion.
>
> Best regards,
>

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