[Bf-committers] Reset to Defaults...

[Bassam Kurdali]

+1
It's also the only sane way to deal with the layer buttons in dupligroup
visibility .

On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 01:43 -0500, PabloVazquez.org wrote:
> >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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