Questions tagged [interface]
Questions pertaining to Blender's user interface, such as theming, scripting and operating the interface.
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Tool 'builtin_brush.Grab' not found for space 'VIEW_3D' Rig UI error
While studying a course on animation, I came across a problem. Running the blend file with the squirrel rig, I get this error when I enter the pose mode: "Tool 'builtin_brush.Grab 'not found for ...
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How to list of all pie menus?
Is there any resource (inside Blender, or in the manual etc.) that lists all the available pie menus?
Individual pie menus (e.g., those reached with backtick or shift-S) are mentioned in their ...
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Area Splitting Option Disabled
When I opened a .blend file [Not mine someone else saved it], There is only one work area.
There the Area Split option context menu looks Disabled(greyed out). How can I enable it?
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Blender 3.4 crashing/hard quitting with Global Undo checked on [closed]
I'm trying to animate shots with linked characters and a linked environment, but Blender crashes and hard quits every few minutes making it very difficult to work. The crashes usually occur after or ...
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I am wondering the best way to get acquainted to blender basics [closed]
Hello this is my first post what I am specifically wondering is what is the best way to memorize blender basics and what is the best way to obtain all the beginner shortcuts and hotkeys I would need ...
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Trouble with Blender preferences file not loading
I'm having trouble with Blender not loading my preferences file. Every time I open Blender, I get the message "Read prefs: C:\Users\Komil\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\3.4\config\...
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Is there a way to show different objects in two 3D view scene?
I want to show all the objects in the left 3d view window(1 ball, 1 cone, 2 cubes), and only show part of all objects in the right 3d view window (2 cubes).
Is there a way to implement this or is ...
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Editor Headers Merging to One Line
I noticed something very annoying , usually at the top of the viewport there will be 2 lines with options (Image 1). but when I'm using 2.9(the latest version I can use renderman), the lines are ...
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Python: Traceback (most recent call last): line 131, in execute in button3 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'data'
I was making a Blender add-on that can create a predefined light-setup and generate HDRIs. For this it changes some settings of the camera in the scene.
The script creates two sections named Illumin8r ...
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Using .alert = True partially
I am trying to make a button appear red in a panel. I have the following code:
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properties , preferences or outliner areas do not display
going from viewport to Properties, or preferences or outliner I get a full black screen of properties, preferences, or outlier but nothing more
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Different looking objects
Just a quick question. why do all professional YouTubers have this different look of blender objects.
for example:(screenshot from a tutourial by ducky 3d)
while mine looks like:
I'm talking about ...
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How to update the texture in the UI when using "template_preview"
I'm using Blender 3.4 and I want to display an image in the UI and be able to change it by pressing a button.
The button using ImportHelper executes this code:
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How to set keymap direction
I want to make an operator for the keymap that will set a value for the click-drag direction. I added a button above the click-drag direction, and have tried a lot of different things in python to set ...
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I'm not able to see anything In the UI
All the regions of my user-interface outside the 3D view have disappeared, and I don't know what is happening. I can't find a way to fix it. What should I do?
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Change the resolution scale on the fly by shortcuts?
ctrl + alt + Q and ctrl + space
are great Shotcuts!
When I maximize the Outliner for example I would prefer a 2.0 or 1.5 resolution scale. Or ingeneral when I maximize a window a changed ...
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Access the parent Panel from a context menu?
I have a created a context menu. I'd like to only show this menu when it's called within a specific Panel. How many I get the Panel in which the context menu is being drawn? I have tried ...
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How do I remove all these windows? [duplicate]
I accidently puted these windows. How do I get rid of these?
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how do I change shortcut number in pie menu?
the image is the Ctrl+Tab pie menu but my question is about pie menus in general.
You can see there are numbers next to each pie menu button.
I'd like to customize the numbers (I think those are kind ...
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How to do a "frame all fit" in camera view
You know, when you watch a rendered image and you can do Shift+Home to "frame all fit".
The same thing, but in perspective camera view: it's useful to pan the view to check details, using ...
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How can I position my plugin elements (buttons) not in a separate area, but right next to the blender buttons?
Now i use this code:
class OBJECT_PT_ModifAddPanel(Panel):
bl_label = "Modifier++"
bl_space_type = "PROPERTIES"
bl_region_type = "WINDOW"
bl_context = "modifier"...
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Undo going too many steps in Blender 3.4
I have been having a problem recently where my Ctrl + Z undo has been going too far. Often I will hit undo once and blender will delete roughly an hour of work. It deletes objects, materials, ...
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Why is Blender cancelling my render on "undo"
Everytime a render is processing, while I'm doing other things in the software, and want to undo my last action, Blender cancels the ongoing render.
I thought it was a shortcut issue, but it's not; ...
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event.mouse_region_x after region is closed/re-opened?
I have a modal operator with the method def modal(self, context, event): and I'm catching event.mouse_region_x. The operator runs in the Node Editor. When I close ...
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How do I open back the properties panel? [duplicate]
There should be a list of all the items and their properties here.
I don't know if there's a way to bring it back
I don't need the N panel, I need this one:
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Snapping tools missing inside of UV Editor
Inside of my UV editor, I am missing the Snapping tool bar. I've going through Preferences, View menus and more to try and restore this with no luck. Without this option, I cannot snap and of my UV. I ...
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Move hidden icons into two rows
In Blender, especially in the UV editing layout, I have the problem that I can't see some icons. There is not enough space for all icons in one row! How can I move them in two or more rows?
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How to use custom icon.dat as property icon?
i'm currently trying to set a custom icon as property icon. I was able to create a working icon .dat file by using the icon file from Blender itself and confirmed that its viable by replacing one of ...
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Centre face dots in Xray mode
Being new to Blend 'n all... In Blender 2.91, whilst modelling, I've suddenly noticed dots in the centre of faces (Edit mode) when Xray mode is on.
I'm not sure what I clicked/pressed to get them ...
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FloatProperty Slider Pairs That Sum to 1, Dynamically Changing
This might just not be possible but I thought I'd ask. Is it possible to have two sliders min=0.0, max=1.0. Where their contents always sum to 1 but the user can still move them.
For example a slider ...
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How to create a checkbox in Geometry nodes modifier stack
In the image below, I have two switch nodes. The default appearance for the boolean input of the switch node is a checkbox. But if I pull in an input to control the switch node from the modifier stack,...
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Storing CollectionProperty for UIList in Addon Preferences or elsewhere?
My add-on has a panel where a UIList is drawn.
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Add a custom shading mode (+UI changes like pie menu)
I want to add a custom shading mode. I was able to add a button in the header:
but I don't know how to add it next to the four shading mode buttons (and also I think I need to make it a boolean ...
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running function when selecting shapekeys
I'm trying to run a function (setting the active shapekey value to 1, and all other shapekeys values to 0) when selecting a shapekey.
Not quite sure how to achieve that. I tried subscribing to msgbus ...
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Properties don't show up on panel [duplicate]
I was following this tutorial to make a simple calculator in blender (v3.3.1), my code is almost if not completely identical to that of the recording but unlike the tutorial's mine does not seem to ...
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Template list filtering
I'm working on filtering for template lists and hit a bit of a wall.
I have 2 lists, both showing shape keys of the active object. One on the left is showing items with no '_' in them (Main shapes). ...
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Keyboard sometimes randomly gets scrambled in Blender
I began using Blender this year and have loved it and modelled a cool stink bug. However, I have a more annoying kind of bug..
Sometimes the keyboard gets scrambled such that if I press any key over ...
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How to Properly Adjust the Frame in Camera view
the Camera view's gutter
I often find that when hopping into a Camera view, the margins in the 3D Viewport are quite large. I do not want to change my camera settings. Instead this is a bit of a GUI ...
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Blender outliner Context Menu entry
I want to add an entry in the object context menu of the outliner. I tried with bpy.types.OUTLINER_MT_context_menu with no results.
Any idea how i can do that ?
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Force shading to a specific mode when opening a file
If you save and close a Blender file with the shading mode set to Material Preview, once you reopen the file the shading mode is still set this way. In the case of complex scenes with lots of ...
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Can Blender be made to indicate directly, if auto-saving is in progress?
If Blender is unresponsive, I can only tell if that's due to auto-saving, by looking at the disk footprint in Task Manager.
This problem is giving me a headache. Is there any way to achieve an ...
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Properties menu only has tiny text which is too small to read
In Blender, 3.4, upgraded to 3.4.1.
The text in the Properties menu is extremely tiny. The other menus are fine but the Properties menu is too small to read. Adjusting the resolution in the ...
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(Python) Add UI Button to the Grease Pencil DOPESHEET Header using Python
I would like to add few buttons to the DOPESHEET header when it is set to Grease Pencil Mode.
At the moment I can add buttons before or after using prepend and append methods.
The problem I struggle ...
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Blender 3.1 Edit Mode Cursor Changed From Arrow to Crosshair
Hitting hotkeys while I was modeling and the regular cursor (not 3D cursor) suddenly
changed into a crosshair from the arrow it was before. I just wanna change it back. I can't
find any info on how to ...
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Can I use bpy.types.ImagePreview to draw 2D image with GPU?
It seems that gpu.texture.from_image(image) only accepts bpy.types.Image datablock. I was wondering if there is any way to use bpy.types.ImagePreview instead? https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy....
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Scene collection dropdown buttons dont work
Nothing happens whenever I try to click on the triangle dropdown icons/buttons in the scene collection menu.
I've had this problem for a while now even on older versions of blender, but I can't seem ...
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UI row alignment issue
I have a bit of an issue keeping the checkboxes always on the right, when toggling some values on and off -
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What is area region type HUD and where to find?
In Blender API (3.4) I can see that HUD is a Floating Region
Region Type Items > HUD: Floating Region
Region Type Items
and attribute show_region_hud is ...
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Is there a way to avoid or resize the big OK button for pop-up dialogs?
I'm trying to create a bit of a minimal pop-up dialog, so it would be great to avoid the big OK button...
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How to create a Custom Menu after Object in the View 3D Header
I am trying to create a custom entry just after the "Object" menu of the 3D View, but I can only append or prepend it, meaning it is at the begining or at the end of that particular space.
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