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Python Scripting in Blender
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Python Scripting in Blender

by Paolo Acampora
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Designing Graphical Interfaces

Many tools add their own elements to the graphical interface. In the previous chapters, we used existing menus, but we can also add new panels to the Blender window.

To design an interface, we must decide which elements to show and how to reach them, what information should be provided, and which actions should be allowed.

In this chapter, you will learn how to insert new panels into different regions of Blender, how to display information and icons, and how to add buttons that can invoke operators.

This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the Blender interface
  • Drawing a custom panel
  • Context and UI interaction

Technical requirements

We will use Blender and Visual Studio Code in this chapter. ...

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