[Bf-taskforce25] Modifier Layout Proposal

[Bassam Kurdali]

-while the proposal looks cool at first glance, I think on reflection
that it is has some issues.

-for the current stack, you can see the modifiers at a glance (a plus)
and it shouldn't be hard to have collapse/uncollapse all functionality
to compress it, in the case of very long stacks.

-if the modifiers have their own area, even very long stacks will be
visible.

-stack metaphor is a vertical one conceptually, with stuff on top of
other things, this is not quite clear with a row of icons.

-blender's current stack is currently upside down :)

-drag and drop re-ordering of the stack is a good idea from the concept,
current stack with reordering buttons is quite slow to reorder.


On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 14:10 +0200, Alberto Torres wrote:
> 2009/6/6 Eclectiel L <eclect25 at yahoo.com>:
> 
> > - Show a drag and drop workflow. This kind of workflow may have
> > some advantages, like for instance adding several modifiers at
> > once, and allowing a cleaner interface since actions are done
> > with gestures (drag-drop) instead of using buttons/widgets. The
> > "Modifiers Row" is an alternative that makes these gestures
> > possible.
> 
> If the only use of those buttons are adding modifiers, I think it
> would be faster and easier to just click in order to add a modifier.
> If want to add a mirror modifier, an armature one, a subsurf and two
> shrinkwraps:  click, click, click, click. Done. With your mockup it
> would be: shift+click,click,click,drag; click+drag (again).
> 
> In fact it would be something easily done in the 2.4x interface, just
> adding some buttons next to the "add modifier" button.
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