[Bf-taskforce25] Texture workflow update

[William Reynish]

Yeah, to be honest, putting textures under each parent tab doesn't  
really mesh well with the idea of using textures for other things such  
as brushes or modifiers.

Perhaps that idea should be scrapped.

The new 'unpinned' context selector can even be used for adding  
textures that are not connected to any other ID, ie. has no context.

Cheers


On 17 Jun, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Shaul Kedem wrote:

> Regarding subtabs, the question is, as I can see it, flexibility vs.
> usability, meaning: if textures are a different button they are to be
> used "by themselves" and not as part of other things (material, world,
> paint, sculpt) and so in the future they might come into other realms
> (create a sound according to a material, I don't know), on the other
> hand having materials in the material context is logical and
> practical, since this is where we use it the most,
>
> I have a third suggestion - have some kind of a link from the material
> tab to the texture tab (something quick and visible) so where you want
> to edit a texture you can open that texture's information in a snap. I
> know pop ups are not welcome but in this case (like in quick color
> picker) they might prove useful,
>
> Shaul
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Thomas Dinges<dingto at gmx.de> wrote:
>> +1 on the subtab idea!
>> It is very useful, i think and it would have another great benefit!
>> Guess...right, modifiers!
>> Lets get rid of the particle, physic tab and instead have subtabs  
>> in the
>> modifier tab.
>> You enable a cloth modifer and a cloth subtab appears. This way, its
>> more consistent, we have modifiers inside the modifer tab itself  
>> and in
>> the subtab enough space for all buttons.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>> William Reynish schrieb:
>>> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/texturetabs.png
>>>
>>> These sub-tabs can nicely be used for other things too, like a game
>>> tab with two sub-categories for controlling scene-specific game
>>> settings and object-specific game settings.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> -William
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