3D Viewport Pie Menus

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• Actually add "Apply Rot/Scale" to Apply Transforms pie, instead of "Apply Loc/Rot" that I incorrectly added in the previous update.
• Fix Set Parent Pie not being blocked for linked objects or non-editable override objects, where it would do nothing. These cases now result in a red tooltip explaining why that won't work.

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• Fix unregistering conflict when my Blender Log add-on is also enabled.
• Add "Apply Rot/Scale" to Apply Transforms pie, on user request. Remove "Make Instances Real" since it's extremely niche. If anyone misses it, say so.
• Fix error in Parenting Pie when target is an armature with no active bone.

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• Fix Manipulator Pie (Alt+Space) not behaving like it used to. Each option now sets the manipulator to ONLY the chosen type. You can hold Shift for the previous behaviour of TOGGLING a type of manipulator instead of setting it as the exclusively active one.
• Fix Purge Orphans not working when there is no 3D Viewport somewhere on the screen.

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Minor polish:

• Object Display Pie (Shift+W): Add a workaround button to copy the color to all selected objects. This was needed because Alt+Click doesn't currently work due to a Blender bug/limitation.
• Make "Reset Normals" operator work in Edit Mode.
• Try to address some rare console warnings in hotkey registration code, even if I could not reproduce.

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Thanks to everyone for reporting bugs, annoyances, and giving suggestions. I've been trying to address all types of feedback to make the add-on great for both old and new users.

Highlights

• Add "mouse-drag" toggle for the 6 pie menus that by default only appear on mouse drag. You can now make them appear instantly if you prefer.
• New Select by Name Pie (Ctrl+F).
• New Object Display Pie (Shift+W).
• Reworked Object & Mesh Selection Pie (A).
• Reworked Preferences UI.
  • Added Report Bug button. Please use this instead of the Review system...
  • Now includes built-in Pie preferences as a sub-panel.
  • Hotkeys are also a subpanel.
  • Added ability to display preferences in the sidebar.

Tweaks

• Slightly reworked "Mesh Flatten" (Alt+X) pie, formerly known as "Mesh Align".
• Slightly reworked "Preferences" (Ctrl+U) pie, formerly known as "Defaults".
• Editor Switch: Outliner and Properties sub-types are now shown as a drop-down list, based on feedback.
  • Had to swap Asset Browser and Properties sub-types (topleft<->topright) for this to work well.
• Tapping ` (Grave Key) in default Blender with "Pie Menu on Drag" enabled activates Fly Navigation. I thought it was doing Toggle Orthographic, whoops.
  • 3D View Pie -> Down is now Toggle Orthographic instead of Fly Navigation.
  • For 2.7x and Industry Compatible keymaps, tapping ` now activates Fly Navigation.

Fixes

• Fix Outliner couldn't be set to Blender File sub-type.
• Fix Ctrl+Space throwing (harmless) error on pop-out windows.

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Hotfix infinite pie menus causing crashes and freezes.

Apologies for those affected, this was pretty bad. I'll be more careful.

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Hotfix for hotkey customizations not being saved for pie menus that only appear on mouse drag.

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Tweaks:

• Camera Pie default shortcut changed from Shift+Alt+C to just Alt+C.
• Window Pie gets new entries: "Pop Out Window", "Toggle Status Bar". Had to shift Toggle System Console to the left because Toggle Status Bar makes too much sense on the bottom.
• Window Pie now gets an "Exit Fullscreen Mode" operator when an area is fullscreened, which works no matter which type of fullscreening you used, unlike before.
• View Pie renamed to 3D View Pie and changed shortcut from Ctrl+Alt+Q to Shift+C+Drag.
• Animation Pie gets better button labels, and only activates on mouse drag.
• Finished cleanup of all remaining old code. Renamed file names, class names, bl_idnames, to be more accurate and conforming to official conventions. Split up files, removed redundant operators, etc.

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Big, pretty scary changes. Feedback welcome! Keep in mind, the Extensions platform doesn't allow me to put add-ons in a "Beta" state, but this is intended as that. There may be bugs, and the design might still shift based on feedback.

If you want stability, stick to 1.3.2 for now! If you want to help me test stuff, use the latest version.

Reworked

Editor Switch Pie (Ctrl+Alt+S)

• Includes all editor types and sub-types.
• Uses sub-pies instead of sub-menus, so you can develop complex gestures for muscle memory, and never have to search in a list again.
• Except for custom Node Editors registered by add-ons, because those are displayed in a dynamic list.

Apply Transforms Pie (Ctrl+A)

• Added icons, poll functions, tooltips, and improved button labels.
• Add a custom Operator to turn instancer empties into the collection they're instancing.
• Include the built-in "Make Single User" operator, since if you try to apply transforms on multi-user data, it will fail.

Save/Open Pie (Ctrl+S+drag)

• Removed "Save" option, because the pie menu now only opens on drag, so you can just tap Ctrl+S to save.
• Removed "New" option, because Ctrl+N is a universal shortcut in all of software, so you are most likely using that already.
• Split up "Imort/Export" into separate entries to reduce nesting.
• Split up the "Open" sub-menu to two entries to reduce nesting.
• Replace "Link" sub-menu with a "Library" sub-pie.

New

Library Pie (Shift+S -> Up-Left)

• Link/Append
• Make Paths Relative/Absolute
• Pack/Unpack all Libraries and Resources
• Make All Local
• Toggle Auto-Pack option

Relationships / Delete Pie (X)

• Clear distinction between "Unlink" and "Delete". (Sometimes when core Blender tells you you're deleting stuff, you're actually just unlinking it.)
• Includes a tweaked version of the built-in Purge operator.
• Also works in Outliner.
• Includes a greatly improved version of the built-in Remap Users operator. Useful for replacing an object, or any other datablock, with another of the same type.
• Includes new operators to explore object dependencies and references.

Object Parenting Pie (P)

• Originally proposed here.
• More artist-friendly wording, tooltips, and options.
• "Set Parent" will parent objects without the child flying away.
• "Clear Parent" will clear the parent without the child flying away.
• Advanced parenting options are tucked away in a pop-up operator, with tooltips that explain exactly what they will do.

Mesh Merge Pie (M)

• It's just the regular Merge menu but as a pie, nothing fancy.

Changes

• Proportional Pie (O) now only opens on drag. Tapping O toggles proportional editing on/off.
• Window Pie (Ctrl+Space) now only opens on drag. Tapping Ctrl+Space fullscreens the editor like it would without the add-on.
• Camera Pie (Shift+Alt+C) gets an improved version of the "Snap Camera to View" operator which tries to fit the camera view in the whole frame, and also includes a custom "New Camera From View" operator. This pie is now context-sensitive, so it shows different options depending on if you're looking through a camera or not. This is a bit experimental, and the shortcut is also likely going to change to Alt+C to make it easier.
• Some built-in pie menus now work on alternative keyconfigs like Industry Compatible and 2.7x, but only if the add-on is registered after those keyconfigs were picked. These pies are currently: Ctrl+Tab -> Modes, Z -> Shading, ` -> View, N -> Regions.

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• Removed redundant Mode & Shading pies
• Rework Sculpt Brush Select Pie
• New Area Split/Join pie on Alt + `
• Split up Ctrl+Alt+Q pie into 3 pies
  • Shift+Alt+C is now a Camera Pie
  • Ctrl+Space is now a Window Pie
  • Ctrl+Alt+Q is now a View Pie
• Slightly reworked Set Origin pie
• Slightly reworked Proportional Editing Pie, and changed default from Shift+O to just O.

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• Fix preferences failing to save/load.
• Fix preferences not displaying in 4.0. This required bumping the minimum Blender version to 3.0 for some reason.

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4.3 Compatibility

The add-on was not working in 4.3 due to the Brush Assets rework. To fix this, I now ship the old Sculpt Brush icons with the add-on. This is still backwards compatible with 4.2 (and even 2.8), so LTS users can get future updates of the add-on.

Hotkey Editing

It wasn't previously easily possible to edit hotkeys registered by the add-on. This can now be done in the preferences UI.

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