Dev:Ref/Release Notes/2.78/UI

Blender 2.78: User Interface

Tools

Category column in operator search-popup.

• Eyedropper: Esc or RMB now cancels the eyedropper and resets the button to its initial value. ↵ Enter was added for confirming.
• Eyedropper: Support user configurable shortcuts
• Operator Search: show operator categories in search. (d49985ce)
• Operator Search: Searching now supports multi word filtering. (80a7efdc1d39)

• Radial operator (used for brush size/strength setting) now always displays the tool name + current value in the header. (9815262) Also, the precision of the reported values has been tweaked to be more useful/less intrusive (74399e0)

• Incremental snapping intervals for UV editor were made smaller, thus making snapping more precise. (9c600435)

• X11: Hotplug support for xinput, allows for plugging/unplugging tablets without restarting (6ce0ddae)

Visualization

Waveform (top) or text (bottom) on the sound strip.

• Sequencer sound strips now either show the waveform or the strip name/file name/duration, but never both. (633e93e27)
• Added extra waveform visualization for image editor. (a76e69f)

Command Line

The --render-frame argument now supports multiple comma separated frames as well as frame ranges (16f919ea). Examples:

blender -b test.blend --render-frame 1,2,4,8               # individual frames
blender -b test.blend --render-frame 1..100                # frame ranges
blender -b test.blend --render-frame 1,2,10..40,100..200   # both

Render Border

• In the 3D view, drawing a border around the entire camera frame now limits viewport rendering to within the camera frame (5b99dd58)
• Cache render results, save buffers and full sample antialiasing now work with border rendering (7fcab332)