Hi, Aside of some details, this is what Antony and Julian already have been working on. The basics is simple, the implications and implementation not - especially to achieve top level (and pleasant) interaction.
-Ton- -------------------------------------------------------- Ton Roosendaal - t...@blender.org - www.blender.org Chairman Blender Foundation, Producer Blender Institute Support us - join blender.cloud or Blender Dev Fund. > On 23 Aug 2016, at 10:29, Joe Eagar <joe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all. I had a rather panicky reaction on pursing Autodesk Fusion 360 > videos: > > http://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360 > > Here's a direct link to one of the videos: > > https://www.youtube.com/embed/KZyjLwKWyOw?rel=0 > > So! 3D widget interfaces on steroids. I've dome similar stuff in the > past, so I thought I'd write up how I went about designing a 3D widget API > (to fit inside my Blender-derived application architecture). > > The basic concept is pretty simple, and is a lot like a 2D user interface > API. You have shapes that live in the 3D viewport (and participate in the > dependency graph). These shapes have event callbacks (and an "am I still > alive" method) and can contain other shapes. They also participate in the > dependency graph. > > Shapes never store direct pointers to data. References to scene objects > and the like are stored as RNA paths. > > In my implementation shape widgets could not go modal. Instead they would > invoke modal tool operators, and if necessary insert a temporary DAG node > to update themselves interactively. For example, a translate manipulator > widget has a DAG reference to the active object. When it invokes > transform, the widget automatically moves as the user expects. > > One final point. 3D widget user interfaces are remarkably difficult to > design, and I don't have a lot of talent for that myself. Before any > coding happens, we should solicit proposals from people with 3D UI design > talent. > > Anyway, cheers! > > Joe > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
