State of the UI — Blender Conference 2024

"State of the UI" by Pablo Vazquez, Julian Eisel, Harley Acheson, Hans Goudey, Jonas Holzman
Blender Conference 2024
2024-10-25 16:30 at the Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, attic. —

#b3d #BCON24

[trinumedia]

Lot's of little details go a very long way. Thank you so much for the new color in icons! Couldn't have progressed with a colorful iconized fork of Blender without it.

[david_airapetiann]

wow, you guys make a stunning interface tweaks, i don't know any other software with such unique, complex, functional and convenient interface with such amazing control. We are very happy to see how it improves from build to build and how deeply and conveniently different elements and blender systems are connected to each other. Also your presentation skills are amazing :) love you

[MrXorrito]

The new move/split area operator feels so nice and smooth. Assigning a shortcut is fantastic, no more pixel hunting those corners!!!

[slothsarecool]

Fake User was one of the biggest “WTF” moments for me when initially using Blender FWIW

[spiralingspiral]

please do something about the KNIFE TOOL having ALL OF ITS TOOLTIPS at a NARROW space at the BOTTOM OF YOUR SCREEN

[dzibanart]

Bmenders ui is so flexible i love it, there is always improvements to be done that doesn't mean the tool is bad.

[jendabekCZ]

Polishing is probably important, but what about basic things like not being able to resize some UI, so we can read the actual items? Take a look for example at attributes selection in Vertex Paint mode, there are just first 3 letters from the attribute name followed by "...". Why I can't simply drag & resize the whole box?
I would also vote for getting colored icons back since we have the support for that now - like in 2.79 where the World icon was represented by blue / green globe and not a red sphere which makes no sense to me (and looks almost identical to the material icon). Same with Light icon which is currently green instead of yellow - why? Maybe it wouldn't look that "cool", but it certainly makes the navigation in the UI much more intuitive = faster.
But don't get me wrong - Blender is amazing and the progress in the last years is really great (especially GNodes are very powerful) - big thanks for such amazing piece of free(!) SW.

[CGFun]

Good to see Svg icons as standard across entire UI.
These small tweaks makes the software cohesive.

[RoboThePanda]

i love everyone who makes blender thank you :)

[coinopanimator]

The windowing inprovements are so good. I still get so frustrated with splitting windows. I am loving Blender.

[jeffsfolio]

Keymap and Quick Favorite Editors take my priority vote. Would make it so much easier as a teacher.

[Tolkfan]

That icon website is amazing! So much better than staring at the tiny Icon Viewer and trying to find a nice icon for a button in your addon :P

[NicCrimson]

24:10 I hope they add an alpha output to the color node.
26:48 Option to add the asset shelf to any location, top, bottom, left right.
28:16 Something like Krita's Pop Up Palette to add brushes like in a pie menu. There are already a ton of addons that does this but native would be nice.
Oh and custom colors for collections. Not the themes, I mean but any color not limited to a select few.

[aiamfree]

we should have an option for accordian or tabs for sections I hate scrolling up and down endlessly for Cloth and Physics

[uover]

Please think of adding customizable shelfs for plugins, like in maya.

[theftking]

What are they talking about? Blender doesn't have a _UI._ It's just a series of tubes.

[stephen-boddy]

I didn't realise actor Alan Alda was moonlighting for Blender!

[gurratell]

I would so love to get the viewport render status (as in "Updating Mesh", "Sample 139/1024" etc) down in the status bar. Having the overlay enabled while rendering some stuff is unfortunately not always desired or feasible so getting it down in the status bar would be so nice!

[sabongdotnet]

I have low vision. I noticed these things. Thanks for that detail!

[kevinhouse]

Yay Harley! I am a longtime Blender user from Victoria BC. Thanks for everything you all are doing for the UI. Go Canada! Go Blender!