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How to create a custom UI?
I was watching this video on making a custom UI tab using Python, and in the line from bpy.types import Menu, Panel, UIList, I see the names of objects that look ...
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Create an interface which is similar to the material list box
How can I make a Interface which is similar to the Material-Interface within Blender via Python?
It should look like these. Could you guide me to the right direction? I don't think it's in bpy.ops, ...
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Blender UI Multithreading Progressbar
The following question might've been asked several times, but I've found no satisfactory answer.
Short question:
How can I show progress of background task in Blender UI?
Explanation:
I have a ...
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Is there anyway to make blender print errors in the UI?
For some reason, sometimes error messages encountered while scripting are not printed in the info panel, only the message ...
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Add a custom curve mapping property for an add-on?
Question
The title says it all. I want to be able to make this in Blender's UI, and sample it at specific points from an add-on:
Problem
There is very insufficient documentation on this, and I can't ...
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How to create submenus with dynamic content?
I am trying to loop over all the cameras in my scene to populate a menu, and be able to access properties of each camera from the submenu of each menu item. For the minute, I'm just trying to get it ...
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How to create a Folder/File Dialog?
So I need to allow the user of my script to choose a directory that contains images, and then run my script on each image. I already have my script made here. I looked at this question already, but ...
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How to call a confirmation dialog box?
I have a button in my menu named "New File" as shown:
and I want when I click on the "New File" button to imitate what the Blender File->New does, where a check message box appear first confirming ...
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Have second window with different perspective open only when a second monitor is connected?
I have Blender on my laptop, into which I sometimes plug an external monitor, and set up some different regions to make my workflow smoother/easier.
When I save and close my project, the multiple ...
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How to create a collapsible panel?
Is it possible to make collapsible panel like it is for object modifiers? I need something similar for my plugin. After choose menu item I want to create new panel with collapsible box, where can I ...
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Add menu entry to generic right-click menu?
I can't find a way to append/prepend an operator to blenders generic "right-click" menu. When looking into the source of interface_handlers.c it seems the operators ...
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How to get one UIList to control the contents of another UIList?
I have two dynamic lists. One is for strings and another one for objects. When the string changes I need the other list to show the objects assigned to the string in the first list. So I would need ...
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Addon to display the current 3D Viewport Zoom
I want to use a panel to expose the Zoom ratio that is currently being used in the 3D viewport. I can see that there are bpy.ops functions that can be used to set this ratio, but I do not want to ...
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Environment for implementing/testing Computer Graphics algorithms
I need to code up a computer graphics algorithm for Surface Registration.
Briefly surface registration is the process of finding "optimal" one-one correspondence
between surfaces, where the meaning ...
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UI: Text box with multiple lines
I want to incorporate in my Blender interface (in my addon) a text box that allows you to write notes on several lines (as in the text editor script). Currently, what I find in Blender are text boxes ...
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