UI: Toggle Camera Guides in Viewport Overlays #121923

Harley Acheson · 2024-05-17T19:21:35+02:00

Harley Acheson commented

2024-05-17 19:21:35 +02:00

Allow toggling camera composition guides in the 3DView Overlay popover.

In our last UI Meeting you mentioned that someone requested the ability to toggle on/off all camera composition guides (safe areas, thirds, etc) with one checkbox in the 3DView overlay popover. Here's something to test.

Allow toggling camera composition guides in the 3DView Overlay popover. --- @pablovazquez In our [last UI Meeting](https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2024-05-07-user-interface-meeting/34387) you mentioned that someone requested the ability to toggle on/off all camera composition guides (safe areas, thirds, etc) with one checkbox in the 3DView overlay popover. Here's something to test. ![CameraGuides.gif](/attachments/88e562ec-855d-4a32-b42c-7718941cc181)

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Harley Acheson added 1 commit 2024-05-17 19:21:41 +02:00

e8fcb0285b UI: Toggle Camera Guides in Viewport Overlays

Allow toggling camera composition guides in the 3DView Overlay popover.

Harley Acheson added this to the User Interface project 2024-05-17 19:22:56 +02:00

Harley Acheson requested review from Pablo Vazquez 2024-05-17 19:23:03 +02:00

slwk1d commented

2024-05-17 20:03:33 +02:00

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Wanted this for so long and always forgot to make a request, thank you for getting ahead of me!

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Harley Acheson commented

2024-05-17 20:10:40 +02:00

Wanted this for so long and always forgot to make a request, thank you for getting ahead of me!

Note this this does not turn off/on the passepartout. We couldn't agree on that. It seems like that might make composition more difficult and that has an easy single checkmark anyway.

Comments on passepartout would be appreciated. Or on anything to do with this of course.

> Wanted this for so long and always forgot to make a request, thank you for getting ahead of me! Note this this does not turn off/on the passepartout. We couldn't agree on that. It seems like that might make composition more difficult and that has an easy single checkmark anyway. Comments on passepartout would be appreciated. Or on anything to do with this of course.

slwk1d commented

2024-05-17 20:19:52 +02:00

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Comments on passepartout would be appreciated.

Mmm, I see why it might be handy to be able to disable it as well, but at least for me the big benefit it's having the possibility to toggle camera composition guides but not other overlays. Especially since, currently, if you turn off all overlays you still have passpartout enabled.

and that has an easy single checkmark anyway.

Good point.

One thing though that always bugged me is that turning off overlays disables also the camera background image, when many times I would have loved to turn off guides (or all overlays) but still be able to see the background image.

> Comments on passepartout would be appreciated. Mmm, I see why it might be handy to be able to disable it as well, but at least for me the big benefit it's having the possibility to toggle camera composition guides but not other overlays. Especially since, currently, if you turn off all overlays you still have passpartout enabled. > and that has an easy single checkmark anyway. Good point. One thing though that always bugged me is that turning off overlays disables also the camera background image, when many times I would have loved to turn off guides (or all overlays) but still be able to see the background image.

Hadrien commented

2024-05-17 22:16:53 +02:00

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I agree with keeping passepartout outside of overlays, since it doesn't "block" the view like other overlays, which is usually why one wants to toggle them off. It's a bit of an exception in that regard.

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thorn-neverwake commented

2024-05-18 17:02:23 +02:00

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I agree that the passp shouldn't be part of the checkbox action.

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Harley Acheson added 1 commit 2024-05-18 18:47:38 +02:00

607cba5208 Merge branch 'main' of projects.blender.org:blender/blender into OverlayCameraGuides

Pablo Vazquez approved these changes 2024-05-21 15:11:34 +02:00

Pablo Vazquez left a comment

Thanks for working on it!

Vivien Lulkowski commented

2024-05-21 15:37:25 +02:00

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Thanks for adding the guides toggle! This will be very helpful for me in the current movie production.
The reason I also requested the passepartout toggle is because I currently often paint curves onto meshes from the camera's pov and with the passepartout I can not paint over the outer edges. It's also made very complicated for me to toggle the passepartout because of the setup we have for the production. I end up going into anim files to change it, then back to the lighting file and then by the end of the day I put the passepartout back the way the animators set it up.
I also turn the passepartout off/transparent to arrange objects in space (like clouds in the sky) while looking from the camera, a one click solution would just be really convenient for this.

Thanks for adding the guides toggle! This will be very helpful for me in the current movie production. The reason I also requested the passepartout toggle is because I currently often paint curves onto meshes from the camera's pov and with the passepartout I can not paint over the outer edges. It's also made very complicated for me to toggle the passepartout because of the setup we have for the production. I end up going into anim files to change it, then back to the lighting file and then by the end of the day I put the passepartout back the way the animators set it up. I also turn the passepartout off/transparent to arrange objects in space (like clouds in the sky) while looking from the camera, a one click solution would just be really convenient for this.

Pablo Vazquez commented

2024-05-21 16:58:30 +02:00

I think it is worth looking into a solution for passepartout. It is a camera property that can't be changed if the camera is linked, which can happen often in production.

However, it can be its own patch. A toggle for Camera Guides I think no-one is against as it is pretty useful. Passepartout is a separate setting.

I think it is worth looking into a solution for passepartout. It is a camera property that can't be changed if the camera is linked, which can happen often in production. However, it can be its own patch. A toggle for Camera Guides I think no-one is against as it is pretty useful. Passepartout is a separate setting.

Harley Acheson added 2 commits 2024-05-22 00:15:07 +02:00

65955c0e05 Merge branch 'main' of projects.blender.org:blender/blender into OverlayCameraGuides

bd3c554447 Only show in camera view

Pablo Vazquez commented

2024-05-27 12:18:06 +02:00

Thanks for the update! For context: feedback on the latest UI module was to make this only show up while in camera view, but other than that we all agree this should go in.

Harley Acheson added 1 commit 2024-05-27 17:31:52 +02:00