Blender comes with the most often used widgets you could need to create a tool: buttons, text fields, digit fields, list (but mainly one row) and groups. And for the record: I am not saying maya is an example, it’s not! (having windows outside of the screen is bad, Autodesk, and you know that since day one and it’s still not fixed). Because creating complex (often needed) interfaces stuck in the left menu, or in a very limited popup windows is complicated. My point is: let the user decide what should be in a separated window and what shouldn’t. You often have 2 big screens, so there is room for multiple windows. But it is not the setup you find when dealing with a professional or a studio. Which is great if you work on a laptop, for example. Why? Because Blender was smartly designed for a single user using a single and small screen.

It’s simple: Blender doesn’t want us to create windows, and relies on embedded frames in the layout. My complaint is more about windows and widgets.

Creating an operator is easy and then you can use it everywhere you need, the API is strong and I like it. The options for creating tools looked too limiting, and still are as far as I’m concerned.ĭon’t get me wrong, there are great designed features for TDs. Two years ago, when I started working with Blender coming from Maya, I was very frustrated by Blender’s GUI limitations for TDs.

Blender multiple windows