テンプレート:Release Notes/2.42/User Interface/Misc

ImageWindow goodies

Options to show with alpha-over (checkered backdrop), only alpha (BW) and when available: the zbuffer. Note: it's icons in the header, I just re-used existing ones, no time now for fancy design. :)

Also: recoded the way alpha-only draws, also in renderwindow. Mucho faster!

Oh, and sampling the buffer with LMB now displays z values in float range of 0.0 to 1.0. Note that we still save signed int in files for Z...

Added an option in View Properties panel to disable drawing of 'relationship lines' - i.e. the dashed lines that connect objects in parent/constraint/hook/IK relationships. After talking to the others I rolled the Armature-specific one into the same setting for simplicity's sake. We can see how it goes, always possible to put it back.

New Fly Mode

The old fly mode has been replaced by a 3d viewport fly mode that operates without a camera and is easier to control. Pressing Shift+F in object mode will put you into fly mode where you can navigate your scene. See the 3d header for controles.

numbuts

Made numbuts use non linear rate of change when dragging. The further you drag the bigger the number gets (like gimp/photoshop brush size slider). Works for ranges: float buttons bigger then 11 and int buttons bigger then 129.

New mouse cursors

Two new mouse cursors (paintbrush and text I-bar) made by basse (he even made the patch!), inspired by Bart's page.

I also changed screenmain() ever so slightly, so that the standard cursor is always used when the mouse is over a window header.

drag lock for numbuts

commiting patch #3847

add drag-lock to numbuts to prevent accidental adjustemnts. Patch furnished by Roger Prefontaine (isocles)

rotating view icon

• patch #3876: Rotating view icon submitted by Davide Vercelli

This replaces (as a user preference) the static icon shown in the bottom-left of the 3D View with a small rotating axis that updates live in all ortho/perspective modes

I made several modifications to the original patch. In the patch, it displayed the axis on top of the 'object info' text since when floating panels are minimised, they sit in the bottom corner and cover the axis up. This annoyance is not limited to the axis, it also covers the frame number and info text, which can be frustrating. Sending them to the bottom is not that useful either, since it's quicker (with esc) and just as much movement to close and re-open them again.

I decided to solve this problem at the cause: Now when using the disclosure triangle on floating panels, they 'minimise in place' rather than going to the bottom.

User preferences are in the 'View & controls' section to: - Display either the 3D axis or the old icon - The size of the axis - the brightness of the axis (colours are taken from grid theme settings)

• patch #3801: Option to show view direction in 3D View

submitted by Daniele Fornaciari

Simple one, just adds an user pref to show the name of the view's direction as text in the top left corner.

Floating panel edge snapping

Floating panels now have a snapping mechanism that sticks them to the edge of a window when you drag them within a small range of it. This not only allows nice easy alignment of panels within a window, but also keeps them stuck to window edges when the window is resized. This means that you no longer get panels that were once on the edge of the window left drifting in the middle of your view if you resize it larger, which was rather annoying before.

 Another goodie is that panels snapped to the bottom edge of the screen will minimise down to the bottom when collapsed, and will move back up to be edge aligned when maximised again, preventing collapsed panels down here from hanging around in space.

Texture button preview

- now draws intensity value correct (black/white was inversed) - added option to show texture alpha too