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Standard UI icons

Post by Whaat » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:00 am

This is mainly directed at benn. :) I hate creating UI icons. Maybe you or someone else could create some standard icons for the exporters for functions such as:

- Material Editor
- Render Settings
- Launch Indigo/Render ->I currently use the Indigo logo which I think is a good idea.
- any others?


My two cents: I hate huge toolbars with tons of icons. I would prefer to keep to the basics: Render/Launch Indigo, Material Editor, and Render Settings

Render Settings can contain other settings such as tonemapping, and camera settings.
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Re: Standard UI icons

Post by SmartDen » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:32 am

what do we need icons for?! is text not enought? and why should i rewrite the UI to hide camera and tonemappping satting under Render settings? Blender users are familiar with the old UI, should i really change it? i don't think so
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Re: Standard UI icons

Post by pixie » Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:43 am

SmartDen wrote:what do we need icons for?! is text not enought? and why should i rewrite the UI to hide camera and tonemappping satting under Render settings? Blender users are familiar with the old UI, should i really change it? i don't think so
I don't know much of blender but in Cinema one has icons which occupy a lot less space then text ever would, and a place where text appears when the mouse is over the icon explaining what the icon does. IMO it's a much better to look then to read, when the icon is a rightful representation of the function that is...

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Re: Standard UI icons

Post by Whaat » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:14 am

SmartDen wrote:what do we need icons for?! is text not enought? and why should i rewrite the UI to hide camera and tonemappping satting under Render settings? Blender users are familiar with the old UI, should i really change it? i don't think so
Hey SmartDen,
I know Blendigo and Blender do not utilize icons to a great extent, but some of the other exporters do. For those exporters that DO use icons, I am only suggesting to make them consistent.
I'm not thrilled about changing my UI either, but I think we all will need to make some compromises for the sake of consistency.

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Re: Standard UI icons

Post by fused » Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:23 am

Whaat wrote:but I think we all will need to make some compromises for the sake of consistency.
yes, +1
Whaat wrote:This is mainly directed at benn. :) I hate creating UI icons. Maybe you or someone else could create some standard icons for the exporters for functions such as:

- Material Editor
- Render Settings
- Launch Indigo/Render ->I currently use the Indigo logo which I think is a good idea.
- any others?
I actually have icons already, but they are not indigo at all (except the color :P ).

I'd need a few more:

- Indigo Instance
- Material Import
- About
- Camera
- Indigo subdivison
- Light
- Material Conversion

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Re: Standard UI icons

Post by benn » Wed Apr 29, 2009 4:03 pm

Smartden, the recommendation is to make the UI look as much like the native app as possible, but having standard dialogs will be needed. If there's a need to rewrite part of the UI we'd want you to do so, but whatever.

The icons we use for the gui are nuvola, i'd recommend starting with those.

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Re: Standard UI icons

Post by CTZn » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:41 pm

This, in Maya ???

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

Errh... no way ??? Certainly that's ok for a product acquired by Gaagle **<- cough, I do pay my respect to SketchUp**... but not even: coz precisely, just like whaat, I'm using the indigo logo in shades of gray to start the exporter suite, and a coloured one to export.

But okay, some mockup of what these standard dialogs (wich are these ?) should look like could help us figure out what you are after.

edit: all in one I'm very much seconding whaat's last post :)
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Re: Standard UI icons

Post by PureSpider » Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:54 pm

What about using famfamfam's famous Silk Icons?

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Re: Standard UI icons

Post by fused » Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:36 am

PureSpider wrote:What about using famfamfam's famous Silk Icons?
+1

There are some nice money icons!!!! :lol: :mrgreen:

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Re: Standard UI icons

Post by CTZn » Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:35 am

:lol: :mrgreen:
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