[Bf-taskforce25] UI Animation

[Mango Jambo]

WOW!!! Brilliant UI design!!! We can see a lot things easier and with faster
access! And very beautiful too! The colors are Amazing! I like the
horizontal Blender Buttons style, but those vertical mockups are away
better!!!
It makes my 2.48a looks too old and ugly! ;)

Moraes Junior - aka mangojambo
3D Artist Animator


2009/3/9 William Reynish <william at reynish.com>

> Hi,
>
> While defining the way Blender draws the panels and buttons on the screen,
> this may the time to make sure the system supports animated transitions.
>
> Why use animation in the UI? Because if a button or panel *jumps* to a new
> position it is obtrusive, and the user must reorient him/herself, whereas
> the if a button or panel gracefully *moves* to a new position,
> the reorganization is clear, and the user can immediately find his/her way
> in new state.
>
> Currently, Blender uses animation for panels opening and closing, but since
> the sense of buttons hierarchy is much stronger in 2.5 I think it is pretty
> important to allow for animations where buttons may appear or disappear.
>
> Here are some example movies for demonstration:
>
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/panel_openclose_anim.mov
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/panel_content_anim.mov
>
> To support this, I'm assuming the system would need to be able put buttons
> into 'blocks' that can then be animated using OpenGL?
>
> Cheers
>
> -William
>
>
> On 9 Mar, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Brecht Van Lommel wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I made a To Do list for 2.5 technical issues to work on.
>
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/WinterCamp/TechnicalTodo
>
> Some more detailed ideas were written down at:
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/WinterCamp/TechnicalDesign
>
> Who will work on what isn't clear yet, I'll probably work on RNA/Context
> items, Ton on WM/Screen and Campbell on Python, as was already
> happening. Especially UI topics would be good to tackle sooner rather
> than later since that is the missing thing to get 2.5 to a somewhat
> usable state, and so that UI designers can get started.
>
> The design for generating UI's isn't fixed yet, it will be based on
> layout templates like "transform coordinates", "preview", "datablock
> browse", "row", "columns", etc. Not completely auto generated from RNA
> but specified on a fairly high level. We need to think of an API to
> create buttons as in these mockups (created by William), while still
> permitting working on multiple selected items for example:
>
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/2_5_mockups_01.png
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/2_5_mockups_02.png
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/2_5_mockups_03.png
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/2_5_mockups_04.png
> http://www.reynish.com/files/blender25/2_5_mockups_05.png
>
> Regarding RNA and Context stuff, it's challenging to keep this system
> understandable so I'll try to document implementation and usage better,
> and ask for reviews on bf-taskforce25 .. to avoid me being the only one
> who understands how it works internally. Diagrams and more detailed docs
> will follow as I work out the design a bit better.
>
> Brecht.
>
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