[Bf-funboard] Large Texture buttons redesign proposal

[William Reynish]

Hi Ton. Your UI theme seems interesting, but there
STILL is no visual difference between radio buttons
(mutually exclusive buttons) and normal toggle
buttons. I thought you agreed it was a good idea to
distinguish between them! What is your oppinion?


 --- Ton Roosendaal <ton@blender.org> skrev: > Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the proposal! I agree with most of the
> reactions here.  
> William overshoots somewhat in his attempt to
> organize it. :)
> 
> -> channels
> Since this is hardcoded in Blender (8 for material,
> 6 for lamp/world)  
> it's quite hard to make the system dynamical.
> Currently, being able to  
> see all available channels is preferable. Using a
> pulldown for it is  
> just abuse.
> There are ideas in development to improve
> material/texture editing in  
> Blender, but that might more become something as
> Wavk proposed with his  
> 'shader editor'. All research in progress...
> 
> -> lamp / mat / world buttons
> the purpose is that this switches automatically on
> selecting objects. I  
> added in 2.30 to have the Camera object showing
> world buttons and  
> textures. ALso when you previously were editing
> world buttons, and  
> switch to texture, it switches automatic.
> The buttons are more useful to indicate extra for
> the user which  
> textures are being displayed, and correct occasional
> errors when you  
> *do* want to see world texture, even when a Lamp is
> active for example.
> 
> -> texture type chooser
> Indicating difference between procedural and
> image-based texture is  
> fine, but not this way.... for the time being one
> pulldown is  
> sufficient. When we add several more procedureals it
> might become time  
> to look at it again though.
> 
> -> improved button drawing
> I've been working on added grouping information to
> the buttons. The  
> drawing routines then can nicely align and visually
> merge groups. As  
> test and to verify it works I've made a rounded
> theme. Here's a  
> screenshot, but its also in CVS to play with. Matt
> promised he'll  
> rework his theme based on this as well.
> http://www.blender.org/bf/rt.jpg
> http://www.blender.org/bf/rt1.jpg
> 
> -> preview render
> On my (really long) wishlist is to expand the
> preview render system  
> with *actual* rendering of 3d models. This could be
> either built-in  
> primitives, or the active object itself. The preview
> image then also  
> can be made wider, filling up a default panel
> completely.
> 
> -Ton-
> 
> 
> On Monday, Nov 17, 2003, at 17:39 Europe/Amsterdam,
> William Reynish  
> wrote:
> 
> > Here is is:
> > http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/texturebuttons.htm
> >
> > Please take a close look at the changes before you
> > comment.
> >
> > It will be followed up soon by a Material Buttons
> > redesign proposal.
> >
> >
> > On a related note, I have updated my Further UI
> > Improvement Proposal, found here:
> > http://www.shadeless.dk/ui/
> >
> >
> > -William Reynish (Monkeyboi)
> >
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