We can use custom icons, icons loaded from external files, and not embedded in Blender libraries, for example, to add customization to operator call buttons in UI panels. However, it is not only buttons that may require custom icons. Using the Blender Python API, we can add customization to drop-down list items or switches that are created based on the EnumProperty type.
By default, there are 7 lines allocated for displaying channels with strips in the Blender user interface, in the Video Sequencer area. If all of them are not used in video editing, it will not be possible to hide unnecessary ones by simply scaling the area size.
However, this can be done by scaling the entire area interface.
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Blender has a very convenient feature – when performing any action, the values for it can be specified in the form of expressions. For example, when rotating a mesh around the Y axis by 36 degrees, we can specify the final, already known value of the degrees of rotation and press the following key combination: R -> Y -> 36. Or, if we need to rotate the mesh by 1/5 of 180 degrees, we can use the expression by entering: R -> Y -> 180 / 5, which will be equivalent to rotating by the same 36 degrees.
When creating add-ons for Blender, developers almost always create the user UI panel with tools that provide the main functionality of the add-on. Typically, such custom panels are placed in the N-panel block, called by pressing the N key. However, if it is assumed that the user will often call the panel with add-on tools, its call can be bound to a keyboard shortcut and the panel can be called from the keyboard.
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To set an icon to a button when creating the custom user UI panel in Blender, we look for the text identifier of the desired icon (usually using the built-in Icon Viewer add-on) and set its value to the “icon” parameter when binding the desired operator to the button. However, the icons used in the tools panel are not existed in the common Blender icons list.
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To make changes to menus in Blender UI, for example, add new items or overriding the menu completely, we first need to know the class of the menu which we need to change.
Mostly often Blender add-on developers use icons from Blender built-in library to personalize UI buttons. However, absolutely any external images can be uploaded and used as icons in the UI.
By default, all objects in Blender are sized in the same units. However, for convenience, we can use the adaptive metric – small objects will show sizes in centimeters and millimeters, large objects – in meters and kilometers.
We can display data in a table-like form in the Blender UI with the row() and column() functions of the layout element in the Panel class, from which we inherit the custom UI panel classes.
The bl_context parameter is used for placing custom UI panels on the desired tab in the Properties area. The value specified in this parameter is responsible for which tab the user panel will be placed on.
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