+1 It's also the only sane way to deal with the layer buttons in dupligroup visibility .
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 01:43 -0500, PabloVazquez.org 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. > > -- > 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
