The VSE grid theme setting is currently used for two things:
* Indicate time intervals (vertical lines)
* As separator between channels (horizontal lines)
This adds visual noise because for the time interval to be visible, the
grid color needs to be bright, resulting in a rectangle-grid backdrop.
Recently, the VSE got a theme setting to customize alternate-row background color.
This should be sufficient to tell the channels apart without the need for a line in between.
Additionally, this patch makes the VSE background use the theme setting as-is,
without hard-coded darkening, to ease the tweaking of themes. This aligns the style
of the VSE backdrop with the rest of Blender (Outliner rows, File Browser, Spreadsheet,
Info and animation editors).
Related reports: T92581
Related task: T92792
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Reviewed By: #user_interface, Severin
Maniphest Tasks: T92581
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13072
Simply removing the check for `UI_STATE_TEXT_INPUT` makes it inherit
the "List Item" User Interface theme settings. This patch changes the
default theme to match the colors of text input fields.
#### Master
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#### This patch
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All the included commmunity themes seem to work well (only Deep Grey might
need more contrast but that's a different patch).
Related reports: T92720
Reviewed By: #user_interface, Severin
Maniphest Tasks: T92720
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13073
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To celebrate the beginning of a new series, it feels like the right time to
give the theme a fresh look while improving on what already works.
The aim of this refresh is to keep a familiar look but with polishing touches
here and there. Like new paint on the walls of your well known house.
The theme for Blender 2.8 was well received but presented a few flaws.
* Transparency on menus and tooltips reduce readability
* Mismatch on certain colors, especially outlines of connected widgets
* Active/open menus highlight was not prominent enough
* Header background mismatch in some editors
At the same time we can make use of new features in 3.0:
* Make panels look like panels again (like in v2.3!)
* Make use of roundness in more widgets
* Since nodes are no longer hard-coded to be transparent, tweak opacity and saturation
* Tweak colors for the new dot grid
This update does not include:
* Meshes in edit mode to match greenish object-data color. This needs tweaks in the code to improve contrast.
* A copy of the Blender 2.8x legacy theme. This could be added to the community themes (shouldn't cost much maintenance, I hope)
There will be certainly small tweaks to do here and there, I've been working using this theme
for months but there can be areas that are missing update. The overall style is presented here.
This commit bumps the file subversion.
Reviewed By: #user_interface, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D13008
This patch changes how nodes look visually, in an attempt to fix a number of issues:
* The header background is currently drawn using a theme color fully opaque, this limits the colors we can use because the node name/label is drawn on top.
* Hard-coded transparency makes nodes hard to read. The node backdrop already has alpha so if the user wants it they can set it. This patch uses alpha from the theme.
* Better muted status indicator, instead of simply making everything transparent and the wires inside red, draw a red outline around the node, darken the header and backdrop.
* On muted nodes, display wires behind the backdrop to not interfere with text/widgets inside the node.
Nodes:
* Darken header to improve readability of node label.
* Draw a line under the header
* Thicker outline.
* Do not hard-code transparency on nodes, use the theme's node backdrop alpha component.
* Use angle icon instead of triangle (to be consistent with the [[ https://developer.blender.org/D12814 | changes ]] to panels)
Style adjustment to sockets drawing:
* Do not hard-code the socket outline color to black, use `TH_WIRE` instead
* Do not use `TH_TEXT_HI` for selected sockets, use `TH_ACTIVE` (active node outline)
* Do not draw sockets background transparent on muted nodes.
* Thicker outline to help contrast and readability
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Reviewed By: #user_interface, HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12884
This patch makes the background grid of the node editor a grid of dots
instead of lines. This makes the background look a bit more subtle and
reduces visual complexity. The dots are meant to provide a reference
when panning and zooming. Based on the design of @pablovazquez, and
a patch originally authored by @fabian_schempp.
The "Grid Levels" controls how many levels of dots are drawn. As the
editor zooms in, the higher levels of dots fade in, making them closer
together visually. The zoom factor at which each grid starts and ends
fading in is controllable in the code, and could be tweaked further
in the future. The new default value is 7, out of a range from 0 to 9.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10345
Camera, lattice and speaker object types were missing there own proper
`USER_DUP_` flags, leading to not properly handling duplication of their
object data.
NOTE: We could probably simply opions here, by using categories (like
'GEOMETRY', 'SHADING', etc.) instead of exact object types. But this is
beyond bugfix scope.
This patch includes code from D9891 and D12754, so credit goes to Juanfran and Dalai.
I updated the patches to work with `master` and with the new overlay toggle.
The reason to include both changes as part of one patch is that the dimmed dashed lines work much better together with colored wires.
Theme setting for dash opacity:
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For adding the overlay I used `SpaceImageOverlay` as reference, although I'm not familiar with this code so there might be mistakes.
Reviewed By: #user_interface, HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12886
Back in Blender 2.30, the GUI project brought panels into Blender among other important visual updates.
For the first time it was possible to move the wall of buttons around. Providing a clear separation
between sections (it even allowed the grouping of panels in tabs!)
During the 2.5 redesign, the separation between panels became a line on top of each panel, and panels received
theme settings for background and header colors. The default theme used the same color for both.
In 2.8 the background color of panels was different from headers in the default theme, so the separator
line was removed. While the separator line wasn't elegant (only on top, non-themeable, hard-coded emboss effect),
it provided a sort of separation between panels.
This patch solves the panels-separation by simply adding a margin space around them (not visible in default theme yet).
Even though the margin reduces the width of the working area slightly, it makes room for the upcoming always-visible scrollbars.
Other adjustments:
* Use arrow icon instead of triangle to collapse/expand
* Use rounded corners to match the rest of the UI (editor corners, nodes, etc).
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Margin on panels makes use of the `style->panelouter` property that hasn't been
used in a while. Also slight tweaks to `boxspace` and `templatespace` style properties so they
are multiples of 2 and operations on them round better.
There is technically no need to update the themes for them to work, so no theme changes are included in this patch.
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A new theme setting under Style controls the roundness of all panels (added it to Style instead of ThemeSpace because I think controlling the panel roundness per editor is a bit overkill):
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Reviewed By: HooglyBoogly
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12814
This patch adds color tags to VSE strips, an overlay option to toggle the colors
on and off, a section in the theme settings to define the 9 possible colors and
two ways of changing the color tag through the UI. You can change the color
through the right-click context menu, or in the strip side panel next to the
strip name.
Color tags are defined in user preferences and they can be disabled in overlay
settings.
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, ISS
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12405
If the theme used by the user did not touch the wire or the wire outline
colors this will update them as well.
This was supposed to be a part of a bigger UI theme change for 3.0. But
it was expedited because of the recent change in line thickness for the
noodles (2bd0205215).
Theme change by Pablo Vazquez.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12649
Adds an "Auto" option to blend thumbnail types that will automatically
use Screenshot if there is no camera and 3dview, or workbench render
with shading settings from the largest 3dview.
See D12407 for more details.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D12407
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
This adds an option to use a capture of the entire main window as the
blend file preview thumbnail.
See D10492 for details and examples.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10492
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
Add overlay option to disable grid drawing.
Reuse drawing code from other editors (timeline editor)
Add argument `display_minor_lines` to function
`UI_view2d_draw_lines_x__discrete_frames_or_seconds`
This way minor line drawing can be disabled and so it doesn't cause
too much visual noise. Also spacing seems to be too fine, so VSE uses 3x
what is defined in preferences.
Reviewed By: fsiddi, Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11790
This patch adds a left aligned sidebar to the spreadsheet editor. This
Sidebar can be used to navigate the geometry component types and
attribute domains. It also provides a quick overview of domain sizes.
It replaces the two dropdowns in the regions header.
Next step will be to add the domain cycling shortcut
using the CTRL + mouse wheel.
Reviewer: Dalai Felinto (dfelinto), Julian Eisel (Severin),
Hans Goudey (HooglyBoogly).
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D11046
Build proxies automatically when added to sequencer timeline and when
switching preview size.
This behavior can be disabled in user preferences.
Reviewed By: sergey, fsiddi
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10363
This adds the initial boilerplate code that is required to introduce
the new spreadsheet editor. The editor is still hidden from the ui.
It can be made visible by undoing the change in `rna_screen.c`.
This patch does not contain any business logic for the spreadsheet editor.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D10645
Ref T86279.
Before committing D10224, bundled preset names that are lowercase need
updating to title case for display in the UI. This changes several of
the preset file names to title case, and fixes a couple of other naming
issues in the preset names. A few strings in the code are also changed
to reflect the new filename of the Blender keymap.
The outline for the active modifier was abusing the property search
match theme color, as noted in a comment. This commit adds a new
theme color in RNA specifically for the active modifier outline.
Simplification and changes to the Navigation gizmo. Better indication of negative axes, consistent use of color and size to indicate orientation, ability to be resized.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9744
Reviewed by Campbell Barton
The green is still distinct from the more turquoise use for geometry, and
they are never used in the same node graph. The use of red makes sense, but
would need changes to other sockets and categories to set it apart well.
Ref T82689
Remove 'U.wheellinescroll' preference, currently hidden and unused.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9616
Reviewed by Brecht Van Lommel
During the development of the new nodes in the `geometry-nodes` branch
the color of the new nodes wasn't considered, so all of the nodes ended
up red, the color for "input" nodes. This patch introduces two new
colors, one for "Geometry" and one for "Attributes". There are only two
attribute nodes currently, but the next sprint will add two more,
attribute mix, and sample from texture. The attribute nodes are
conceptually different enough from the nodes that modify the geometry
that they deserve their own color.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9682
Previously, the alternate row color in the Video Sequence Editor was
just a shaded version of the editor's background color. This makes it
theme-able just like in the file browser and outliner, although the
default color is very slightly different.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9634
The icons originally chosen for the collection colors were selected
during development and had a few issues with contrast in the light
theme, and the gray color was not a good choice against the default gray
backgrounds.
The new colors are more readable in both default Blender themes. Gray
was replaced with pink.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D9504
Both the default theme and Blender Light have been updated.
Blender Light also includes automatically generated colors based on the
default theme that were not set previously.
In the graph editor there is a panel that says "Active Keyframe" for
numerically editing a keyframe's values, but in the code there is no
concept of the "active keyframe." Since this is a useful concept to
have for some other features anyway, this commit adds an active
keyframe index value to FCurves. It also displays it with a theme
color for the active vertex (which didn't exist before) if the
FCurve is active.
The active keyframe in the graph editor is treated similarly to the
active vertex in the 3D view. It is the keyframe most recently selected
with a single click, and it is always selected.
For now, the only real functional change is that the active keyframe
appears in white and it should be more predictable which keyframe is
being edited in the sidebar panel.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7737
This commit makes grid theming more consistent and capable by adding
some new theme colors related to grid rendering.
- Add grid theme color for node editor. `UI_view2d_multi_grid_draw`
is called with TH_GRID instead of a shaded `TH_BACK`.
Also color-blend `TH_NODE_GROUP`.
- Make the movie clip editor's clip preview grid respect grid theme
color (`ED_region_grid_draw` uses color-blended `TH_GRID`).
- Add versioning code to allow fixing existing themes (the resulting
themes should visually look the same as before)
These changes did cause some inconsistencies in the movie clip editor,
even after adjusting the themes accordingly:
1. The alpha slider of the grid color affects the background and not
the grid lines themselves.
2. The grids used by graph and dopesheet mode could already be themed
in the past. Now that the clip preview's grid can also be themed,
two different modes share the same theme color.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8699
This adds color tagging to collections. There are 8 color
options which are themable in the user preferences, with an additional
option for no color tag by default.
This adds a new filled collection icon and 8 colored variants of the
icon that can be themed in the user preferences.
In this commit the only interface to setting the color tags is through
Python, and there is nowhere in the interface where the collections are
shown colored. Setting and viewing the color tags from the outliner will
follow.
Manifest Task: https://developer.blender.org/T77777
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8622
We will use a highlight on panel headers to convey that they have
a search match, so this commit initializes the theme color for the
properties editor.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8854
This project moves the current UV/Image editor drawing to the draw manager.
Why would we do this:
**Performance**:
Current implementation would draw each texel per time. Multiple texels could be
drawn per pixel what would overwrite the previous result. You can notice this
when working with large textures. Repeat image drawing made this visible by
drawing for a small period of time and stop drawing the rest. Now the rendering
is fast and all repeated images are drawn.
**Alpha drawing**:
Current implementation would draw directly in display space. Giving incorrect
results when displaying alpha transparent images.
This addresses {T52680}, {T74709}, {T79518}
The image editor now can show emission only colors. See {D8234} for
examples.
**Current Limitations**
Using images that are larger than supported by your GPU are resized (eg larger
than 16000x16000 are resized to 8k). This leaves some blurring artifacts. It is
a low priority to add support back of displaying individual pixels of huge
images. There is a design task {T80113} with more detail.
**Implementation overview**
Introduced an Image Engine in the draw module. this engine is responsible for
drawing the texture in the main area of the UV/Image editor. The overlay engine
has a edit_uv overlay which is responsible to draw the UV's, shadows and
overlays specifically for the UV Image editor. The background + checker pattern
is drawn by the overlay_background.
The patch will allow us to share overlays between the 3d viewport and UV/Image
editor more easily. In most cases we just need to switch the `pos` with the `u`
attribute in the vertex shader.
The project can be activated in the user preferences as experimental features.
In a later commit this will be reversed.
Reviewed By: Clément Foucault
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8234
We have established a convention of exposing the most important
settings from popovers, then aligning a popover to control more
detailed settings.
The file browser has powerful display / filtering settings, but
they're hidden in popovers at the moment, so it's sometimes a pain
to use them. The "display as" options are now exposed to the left of
the display settings popover, and the "filter" toggle is exposed to
the left of the filter settings popover. This convention is familiar
and intuitive for users and makes interaction faster.
Note that the "show hidden" item in the filter popover still has an
effect if filtering is disabled.
This commit also:
- Removes the icons in the "Sort By" enum
- Uses property split for the "Sort By" enum
- Very slightly increases the default width of the file browser
window to make room for the new buttons.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8719
The outliner already uses the alternating row theme color as an
overlay for every other row. This uses the same color for the file
browser, instead of a hardcoded shading.
The file browser background color is slightly tweaked to match the
outliner, and the Blender Light theme is updated to use a lighter
background color like the outliner.
Reviewed by: Hans Goudey, Julian Eisel
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8717
`TH_UV_OTHERS` is a theme option that isn't hooked to anything since
blender 2.80. This patch will remove the option and related code.
Reviewed By: Campbell Barton
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D8669
Status Bar can show scene statistics, memory usage, version, etc set by context menu. Part two of T75672.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7557
Reviewed by Julian Eisel
This is a temporary solution for T77173 for the 2.83 release. D7203
provides a more long term solution for future releases.
This adds theme colors for the three report backgrounds, setting them
to the color used in 2.82. A separate commit in the addons repository
will follow for changes to the bundled themes.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7908
The file subversion is no longer used in the Python API or user interface,
and is now internal to Blender.
User interface, Python API and file I/O metadata now use more consistent
formatting for version numbers. Official releases use "2.83.0", "2.83.1",
and releases under development use "2.90.0 Alpha", "2.90.0 Beta".
Some Python add-ons may need to lower the Blender version in bl_info to
(2, 83, 0) or (2, 90, 0) if they used a subversion number higher than 0.
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes/2.83/Python_API#Compatibility
This change is in preparation of LTS releases, and also brings us more
in line with semantic versioning.
Fixes T76058.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7748
The old value (1.0) was often too large in practice. When many collection
instances are created, the large empties create a mess in the viewport.
This adds a new preference setting in `Editing -> Objects -> New Objects`
called `Instance Empty Size`.
The value will be used as display size for new empties containing a
collection instance.
Reviewers: Severin
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D7650
