On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:43 PM, PabloVazquez.org <[email protected]> wrote: > >From a user perspective, 'Restore to Defaults' is very, very useful. > Especially for beginners, but even from an "advanced" user perspective. > > Not all settings have a 0 or 1 value, there are certain options that have a > very specific value by default**, and there are reasons for that. > > After playing around with the sliders sometimes you forget what the default > was, and want to go back to a "reasonable" value. I usually just open a new > Blender and check there, but having a "Reset to Default" setting is more > convenient. > > **many options come to mind, for example how to remember that the default > amount of minimum bounces on cycles is 3? Or that the default density for > smoke domain's raising speed is -0.0010? This slider goes from -5.0 to 5.0. > Same for simulation timestep for particles physics, default is 0.040, but > this slider goes from 0.010 to 10.000. > > Anyway these are just a few, but these examples are all over Blender. > > +1 on having a default value.
hah! come to think of it, I was attempting to get sane NavMesh values yesterday and ended up having to open 2 blender's and copy settings between them. On ms-windows without sloppy focus, this is quite annoying. > -- > Pablo Vazquez > CG Artist - Blender Foundation Certified Trainer > Twitter: http://twitter.com/venomgfx > Blender Network: http://blendernetwork.org/member/pablo-vazquez > E-mail: [email protected] > Website: http://www.pablovazquez.org > > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Campbell Barton <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I talked with Ton about this and he suggest to remove the 'Restore to >> Defaults' button. >> >> Can you give some good examples as to why its needed? >> >> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Harley Acheson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Being able to right-click on UI elements, select "Reset to Defaults" and >> > have it do so >> > (instead of setting to zeros) has been a long-standing "to do" item. It >> > took very many >> > hours but I did so for over 200 of the most obvious defaults. I then >> > changed the way it was >> > done as per a request by Campbell, then changed it again as per Brecht. >> > >> > It has been languishing in the tracker for 3 months now. It is 185k, >> > affects many files, and >> > it will only get harder to commit as more times passes. Needless to say I >> > will be a bit >> > disappointed if it just becomes stale and is forgotten. >> > >> > >> http://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=32894&group_id=9&atid=127 >> > >> > Cheers, Harley >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Bf-committers mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> >> >> >> -- >> - Campbell >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- - Campbell _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
