Dev:Ref/Outdated/Proposals/UI/Info Architecture/Shading/Lamps

---+++Shading/Lamp buttons DRAFT WORK IN PROGRESS

1. Lamp datablock

• lamp preview
• lamp datablock name/menu

2. Settings

• Quadratic, Sphere, Layer, Negative, No Diffuse, No Specular

3. Lighting

• Energy, Color, attenuation, distance

4. Properties that vary per lamp type

• (eg. area lamp) Size, Shape
• (eg. Spot lamp) Spot Size, Square, Spot edge blur, halo, halo step

5. Shadows

• Only Shadow
• Buffer Shadows (buffer size, clip start/end, samples, bias, soft
• Raytraced Shadows (Samples, Umbra, dither, noise)

6. Texture channels and mapping (consistent with materials version)

• Texture Channel chooser
• Texture datablock & copy/paste
• Texture mapping coords (in a menu)
• Object text field (when Object selected for mapping coords)
• Offset and Scale

7. Map To (consistent with materials version)

• Mapping Channels(Color)
• Texture color swatch
• Texture Color and Variable Sliders (dvar)
• Blending Mode menu
• Texture settings (Stencil, Negative, RGBtoInt)

---+++Proposed ordering (tentative): (1)/(2), (3+4), (5), (6)/(7)

= 4 tabbed panels in total

ey: "+" combine in same panel, "/" separate panels, tabbed together

-- MattEbb - 25 Sep 2004