Call for Content: Workspaces

[Zoot]

I see that currently Workspace tabs are sorting alphabetically(?) so when you add a new Workspace using the + button, where it shows up is dependent on the name. I was kind of expecting it to get added to the right hand end of the current set of tabs.

The only advantage I can see to this is that when you have multiple tabs for the same Workspace type (General, General.001) that they get grouped together. Otherwise it just feels weird.

What about:

1. New Workspace tabs created via the + menu get added on the right end.
2. Allow drag-and-drop re-ordering of the tabs (if possible, or right-click move-left / move-right if not)
3. Add a right-click option to the tabs to duplicate the current tab which would place it just to the right of the source tab. Maybe also right-click and New Workspace which would be just like the + but would place the new tab immediately to the right of the clicked one as well.

That’s basically the semantics of other current tabbed interfaces like the Chrome web browser.

[AFWS]

Texture painting

[AFWS]

Animation

[AFWS]

Tweaked @zebus3d idea for scripting. I think the text editor needs full length.

[zebus3d]

@AFWS I also like it, but remember to put the Outliner in Data API mode.
And there’s no need the tobpar in this workspace, you can collapse it.

[laudaris]

COMPOSITING/COLOR GRADING WORKSPACE
Based on color grading/compositing concept of Davinci Resolve or Fusion
Used addon: Node Wrangler
Outliner is for managing View Layers (old name: Render Layers)
Camera preview for the 3D Viewport panel
Properties panel for setting up render settings (resolution, output…)
Image Editor set in Mask mode: for rotoscoping or color grade masking purpose - Has Mask T panel ON
Image Editor set to Rendered Result with Scopes T panel ON
Timeline in the middle of the screen for fast scrubbing
Compositing (old name: Node Editor) as work area with N panel ON - for coloring or labeling of nodes

[pablovazquez]

Nice setup. Some notes:

• The outliner+properties are in the opposite side than most/the default workspace without any real gain, I would move them back to the right side for consistency
• Info + Terminal closer together (for copy/pasting), and being in the middle is closer to the text editor

Something like:

Other tweaks I made:

• Collapsed topbar
• Collapsed unneeded header of the Info Editor
• Added View Layer outliner

[pablovazquez]

This is already the planned design, being worked on by @julianeisel in the temp-tab_drag_drop branch.

[pablovazquez]

Nice! Clean and clear. This makes me think of a proposal I wanted to make time ago, to split the Output/Export settings from Render/Scene, but I’ll mention that in another thread.

[pablovazquez]

This one is pretty similar to the one from 2.79, which I think has a few flaws:

• Animation editors lack horizontal space
• Camera Viewport above the outliner is just too small to be functional

[pablovazquez]

I think this is the direction we should go. I’ve updated the first post with a similar one to this, with a landscape viewport (that will probably make smaller to accomodate more room for the text editor).

[pablovazquez]

Pretty neat!

Some notes:

• Move the image editor to the same column as the file browser
• Smaller previews in the file browser
• Collapse the topbar

What do you think?

[pablovazquez]

The Flatty Dark Blueberry theme will be available as well, don’t worry!

[pablovazquez]

Indeed an Outliner comes in handy when sculpting to select multiple objects.

[pablovazquez]

Yay for the Compositor backdrop!

Do you think the Timeline still deserves such a big chunk of the vertical space though? And we could collapse the topbar for extra space even.

[pablovazquez]

The little trick of having the end of the tree in the corner is fun, but something that should be integrated within Blender. A way to set the Composite output as Viewer, almost a toggle.

[pablovazquez]

Looking good! I’d drop the topbar, and I wonder if the timeline is of any use at all, since scrolling is done in the sequencer anyway.

[pablovazquez]

Way to go! I’d argue the reference image could go elsewhere though.