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Questions pertaining to Blender's user interface, such as theming, scripting and operating the interface.

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Is it possible to get a menu map of Blender?

I'd like to look at and compare the menu trees in different editors and modes. This would look something like: Workspace: Layout Editor: 3D Viewport Mode: Object Menu: Add Selection: Mesh ...
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How to reach Specific Node Tree's Features on Panel? (Bump, Image,..vs.)

Hey guys I'm working on Material Management on 3D UI Panel. But unfortunately I stuck somehow and don't find any answers: How to reach a specific node tree's some vector or image features with name: ...
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Few questions about pivot points

I'm total noob when it comes to Blender, so sorry about stupid question(s) :) I have noticed that Blender users love their keyboard shortcuts, and there are lot of them! And its a bit overwhelming to ...
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Drawing folding/collapsible sections in an Operator's Undo panel?

I'm making an operator that is getting big in terms of properties and options. I thought about separating those properties into different kind of tabs that depending the selection, X or Y properties ...
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Prevent that changing an Operator's property retriggers the operator?

I'm making an operator that has the bl_options = {'REGISTER','UNDO'} in order to call the undo menu. Since my menu's draw() is ...
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Custom Panel Ignores ui_scale and ui_units

i was using a pie_menu previously but decided to switch to a panel to make use of the "keep_open" property after converting the UI to work with a panel i noticed the ui_units and ui_scale ...
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How do I bring back N-panel tabs wheel scroll?

I've been using Blender 3.0.1 for a long time and finally decided to upgrade to the latest version. I have imported my previous preferences, everything else seemed fine, but to my despair I've noticed ...
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Replicate brush browser icon view interface

I've been looking for a way to replicate this browser: I have tried this code, but seems that I missing something: ...
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How to get or set UI region scale via bpy?

In Blender there is a way to control a scale of each UI region by holding Ctrl+Middle Mouse Button and dragging the mouse up and down while the mouse cursor is over the desired region: My question is:...
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Minimal object add-on UI with sub-meshes and Redo

I finally have this working UI, after exploring many rabbit-holes, so wanted to share it in the hope of improving its performance. Follow-up to this question. The key goal is to preserve the 'redo' ...
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Indent Guideline in Text Editor

Does the text editor have a feature that shows the indentation of the code? If it does, that would be nice to know.
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Blender 4.0.1 topright toolbar missing

Loved the 4.0.1 update so far but i can't figure out how to get the top right toolbar back. Also magnetic tool and vertex snapping is missing. Doesn't show even in edit mode. I think it should be ...
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How to change Bone display color in 4.0

How does one change the bone display color in 4.0? I simply can't find the option. Where are the buttons?
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Blender's window opens at roughly 1.5 my monitor size

When I open my Blender, its window seems is roughly 1.5 the size of my monitor. I recently just updated to 4.0.1. Prior to the update, this issue never occurred. When I minimize the window and then ...
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How to offset Pie Menu slots/sub-menus for compound menus to not overlap

I'm working with a gigantic pie menu, i need to carefully fit every Pie UI slot so that they don't overlap, the issue is that scaling or not, the Pie slot auto aligns to an invisible center as seen in ...
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How to add VIEW3D_MT menu in scripting?

I'm trying (with help from ChatGPT) to write an addon that will simplify baking. What I'm essentially stuck on is adding a baking menu next to the other VIEW3D_MT menus. Did something change in 4.0 to ...
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Viewport shading and gizmos dissapeared after 4.0

In the layout tab, object mode and edit doesn't show the viewport shading, gizmo and overlays. Sculpt mode works just fine. I don't know what or why happened. It started after i updated to 4.0, ...
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I can't select any objects in Blender despite being on "select circle" (Blender version 4.0)

I opened Blender and for some reason it suddenly just wouldn't let me select anything. Not only that; I couldn't group select. I'm like 100% sure I'm not on 3D cursor as you can see in the image ...
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Align & Scale Light (Portal) to Face

I am an ArchViz artist and during my work I often have to do this tedious task manually: Setting up light portals to align exactly with the window pane mesh. First I have to snap it to the window pane,...
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Anyone know where the Viewport Overlay options (and others) went in Blender 4.0?

There used to be several useful buttons here with much customization within, I can tell that the functionality is still within Blender 4.0 as my old files have some of these options toggled on, but I ...
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Add image tooltip to Geometry nodes / Modifier UI?

I'm currently trying to make a template file for a hat I've made using geometry nodes. My issue is that although I have all my group input parameters neatly setup in the modifier tab - It will be ...
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Reduce wireframe opacity in the Weight Paint mode

When I enable Wireframe in the Screen Overlay TAB there is an Opacity option, but it does not affect the wireframe on the selected mesh for weight painting for some reason, it just makes it look less ...
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Outliner: Is there a way to select objects by data type within a Collection?

Is there a way to quickly select all objects of a given type within a specific Collection? Right-clicking on a Collection in the Outliner brings up this menu: ↑ There is an option to "Select ...
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How can I expand the operator panel

I have no idea how I manage to minimize the operator panel but is there a way to resize it to its default size?
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Feedback Level of the Info window

I wonder if the level of feedback-detail in the blender info window can be "adjusted"? At the moment, the info window shows only that "something" has been moved to <coordinates&...
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How to create an enum dropdown that updates when an object is selected?

I have created an enum property that contains all UV maps of an object ...
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Append custom code to UI events

is there any way to extend Blender UI behavior executing custom code when user interacts with it? Les's say I wanted to change some rendering option when I select a different view layer, can I capture ...
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Iterate over all panels in screen?

I have a timer that is running in the background. I'm trying to identify the running operator by its panel, so when that operator's panel goes away, I execute some code. I thought about iterating all ...
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Blender 4.0 bring back underlined letters [duplicate]

I just installed Blender 4.0 and usually I in nearly every menu, the underlining of letters disappeared. And with it, the accesibilty through keys. Is there a way to activate those letters again? (...
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Got the new Blender 4.0 (this time portable), but it still stores all the addons and preferences like a regular version in App Data [duplicate]

It`s Win 10. I copied Blender foundation folder to the D drive and pointed it the preferences but doesnt give a damn. Any ideas pls?
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Drawing Gizmo in 3D Viewport while operator's panel is showing?

I'm working in an operator that has as properties a point (Vector) in the 3D space and a radius (float). I'd like to show in the viewport some kind of circle/sphere with that position and its radius, ...
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Missing Header Options/Buttons

It didn't happen to me but happened to someone in our group, I also found a similar question posted a year ago about the same bug, but there were no answers to that question either (or at least ...
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Empty drop-down menu after upgrade to 4.0

So I downloaded Blender 3.6 from the website since Steam auto-updating my Blender to 4.0 and PolyQuilt add on doens't work on 4.0, but then I got this menu bug? How do I fix this?
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How to reload icons which are already registered as previews

I try to understand this Blender Example: Blender Docs: Preview ...
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The Active Tool Tab in the Properites Editor is Entirely Empty

I was doing some sculpting and went to change some of the settings on the tool I was using, but the Active Tool tab was entirely empty. I don't know what could have caused this and I couldn't find ...
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Can portable version pick up settings from the previous one like normally installed ones?

I`m planning to move to portable releases of Blender and I wonder, will I have to reset every new version manually, or will it import settings as well?
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How can I make pinned UV vertices more visible?

I was sent a mesh with the task of unwrapping it. The mesh came with a mangled looking UV map (attached below), but that didn't matter to me- the author wanted /me/ to unwrap this so my task was ...
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Custom user path?

I remember watching a Blender Today sometime last year where Pablo was showing off a new feature where you could change the location of your user path, but for the life of me I can’t find that option ...
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How to find out what buttons without a python tooltip actually do?

Most things in the blender interface show info about what Python is used. Others do not: How do I find out what is actually happening when I click these other buttons?
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Blender show the model in orthography mode as transparent, although all settings are turned off

I'm going crazy over this problem. I don't understand how it appeared. The problem occurs in orthography mode. The model looks like it's in X-ray mode, but it's not. I can see the outer surface and ...
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How to switch between Bake and Material view quickly?

How can I switch between a new material I created with a texture bake and the three original materials in one object in Blender, without needing to manually reassign the materials? I want to be able ...
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How to drive rest pose bone positions? (For procedural facial rigging)

I am using bones to emulate facial muscles and I would like the head of each bone to automatically stay attached to an associated vertex, so that when I apply my topology for different characters the ...
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Blender gets stuck when switching to edit mode

I plotted some surfaces in Mathematica and exported them as obj files. There are about 9,000 vertices and 14,000 faces (based on what is shown in the decimate modifier). Blender will get stuck every ...
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Per Object Attribute not updating instantly

I am using this code, based on a previous question: https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/302335/171509 ...
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What is the difference between checking X/Y/Z under Mirror in the side property panel's Tool's Options vs Creating a Mirror Modifier?

it seems that there are two mirroring functions. One is from the Tool side property panel's Options and the other is under Modifier's Mirror. What is the difference between the two?
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Is there a way to disable the left-right arrows beside a numeric UI property?

I have a portion of my Add-On with limited space. I would like to display an Integer number but if it's a 3 digit number, it get's cut away by the two arrows left and right. Is there a way to disable ...
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Triggering the Eyedropper from a certain color property in UI directly or via code?

Im trying to trigger this eyedropper for this color property (the vertex color in Paint mode in Grease pencil): The eyedropper is triggered when pressing E but ...
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How can I get back the gizmo

I moved the eyes and the eye bones on an existing (purchased) Rigify rig. The rig still works and I can move the controls by selecting and hitting G or R. But the gizmo no longer shows up. I re-...
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How to make Game Menu buttons disable others?

I'm still very new to Blender and trying to make a game menu currently. Imagine 9 buttons in a 3 by 3 grid. I need it to where you can only choose one button per column and per row. For example: 1 2 3 ...
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Importing bpy.types malfunctions in custom script directory

Why can't bpy work properly when a script is loaded from a custom file directory? Given that there is a file on C:\scripts\addons...
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