Context Menus for Paint Modes #62130

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William Reynish · 2019-03-02T17:42:31+01:00

William Reynish commented

2019-03-02 17:42:31 +01:00

This is a follow on from a discussion on IRC with @campbellbarton.

Recently, contextual menus menus were added to the paint modes. However, inside the paint modes we hardly have any useful operators to add here.

Instead, we could add common brush controls here, as many painting apps do.

To start, we could just add a simple list of sliders:

Later on, when the brush picker is more fleshed out, we could add it here too, like so:

This is a follow on from a discussion on IRC with @campbellbarton. Recently, contextual menus menus were added to the paint modes. However, inside the paint modes we hardly have any useful operators to add here. Instead, we could add common brush controls here, as many painting apps do. To start, we could just add a simple list of sliders: ![Screenshot 2019-03-02 at 17.38.38.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F6746733/Screenshot_2019-03-02_at_17.38.38.png) Later on, when the brush picker is more fleshed out, we could add it here too, like so: ![Screenshot 2019-03-02 at 17.39.02.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F6746735/Screenshot_2019-03-02_at_17.39.02.png)

William Reynish commented

2019-03-02 17:42:31 +01:00

Added subscribers: @ideasman42, @WilliamReynish

William Reynish commented

2019-03-02 17:43:58 +01:00

@ideasman42 I think we could just start off by doing the simple thing of just adding the most common sliders here for each tool type. I will gladly populate this if you set up a panel for me :)

Campbell Barton commented

2019-03-04 10:16:25 +01:00

Paint context menus are now panels b3a324bec9

Paint context menus are now panels b3a324bec9

Antonio Vazquez commented

2019-03-11 16:10:12 +01:00

Added subscribers: @mendio, @pepe-school-land, @antoniov

Antonio Vazquez commented

2019-03-11 16:10:12 +01:00

Not sure, but I think the original Drawing context menu was better and the operators included are very useful in grease pencil drawing

This is the old menu:

And this is the new

@pepe-school-land @mendio What do you think?

Not sure, but I think the original Drawing context menu was better and the operators included are very useful in grease pencil drawing This is the old menu: ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F6803527/image.png) And this is the new ![image.png](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F6803536/image.png) @pepe-school-land @mendio What do you think?

William Reynish commented

2019-03-11 17:01:12 +01:00

@antoniov we should be consistent in the different paint modes. But we can still add operators here, underneath the brush settings

@antoniov we should be consistent in the different paint modes. But we *can* still add operators here, underneath the brush settings

Daniel Martinez Lara commented

2019-03-11 17:04:53 +01:00

This could be so interesting in deep, but please please please before commint this kind of changes talk with anyone of grease pencil team.
As you now the contextual menus are so useful for the workflow and Grease Pencil is not just for "Paint", basically is an animation tool
and lost all the useful animation options in contextual menus is not worthy at all.

Have the some brush options in contextual menus is useful indeed, I like it, but only that, we need animation options contextual menus in
draw an sculpt modes for a proper animation workflow.

This could be so interesting in deep, but please please please before commint this kind of changes talk with anyone of grease pencil team. As you now the contextual menus are so useful for the workflow and Grease Pencil is not just for "Paint", basically is an animation tool and lost all the useful animation options in contextual menus is not worthy at all. Have the some brush options in contextual menus is useful indeed, I like it, but only that, we need animation options contextual menus in draw an sculpt modes for a proper animation workflow.

William Reynish commented

2019-03-11 17:07:32 +01:00

@pepe-school-land That's why I made this a design task first, and left it here for a few weeks before doing it.

I can add the frame operators into the menu.

@pepe-school-land That's why I made this a design task first, and left it here for a few weeks before doing it. I can add the frame operators into the menu.

Antonio Vazquez commented

2019-03-11 17:31:35 +01:00

@WilliamReynish The fix is perfect. Thanks a lot!

Campbell Barton changed title from ~~Contextual Menus for Paint Modes~~ to Context Menus for Paint Modes

2019-03-11 22:42:27 +01:00

Daniel Martinez Lara commented

2019-03-13 18:17:12 +01:00

Perfect!

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Context Menus for Paint Modes #62130