I was just thinking my own UI theme for Blender 2.5x could be useful some someone else, so here it is! :yes:
For information, the UI color scheme are stored in the startup.blend which is stored in the app folder. On Mac OSX (don’t ask me for other OS) it is stored here: /Users/xxx/Library/Application Support/Blender 2.55/config
The blend is optimized for my Imac, so it is configured for a resolution of 2560x1440 but it shouldn’t be a problem to reorganize your own screens settings :RocknRoll:
AFAIK I think it’s sufficient if you just distribute the startup.blend, if you open it, the theme will be applied. if you like it press ctrl+u.
open startup.blend
preview theme
apply with ctrl+u
If you compile you can use the datatoc.py script on a startup.blend to generate a startup.blend.c to place in the datafiles folder. then the theme will be shipped with the binary.
I like your theme, it both resembles the polish metal in the gray tones, a bit bright. I don’t know about the bright blue “active face” color, it looks good because it’s really contrasty to the background. it’s in a way as the default manic orange color, but overall your theme gives a 2.4X feel to it.
I know there has been people on IRC asking for a 2.4X bright theme, they would be delighted to try this one out! good job.
Yes, you’re right. I just tried to simply open the blend file and it works fine, the new color theme is here.
Thanks! :o
I tried several combinations to find the right colors for selected vertices-edges-faces and that one is the better IMO. I think the light blue color fits well to the face selection and is easily understandable, as the light green color for edges and vertices. I should keep orange color, but it doesn’t fit neither with blue nor with green colors.
I even setted the orange color for non-selected vertices in edit mode but that’s more a mess than useful. So I deleted it. I use it in Blender 2.49 though :evilgrin:
Not sure to understand your questions… :eyebrowlift2:
I think you cannot store several UI themes in 2.5x. Then you need to create you own, store it as default (ctrl+u) and then search it and copy it in an other folder where you want to set your themes. Then all you need to do is to load the .blend you want.
but if you save this iwith Ctl-U tis becomes your default scene when you open blender !
but there must a way to save under another name
i mean in the Theme panel at bottom there is a name to save file there but not certain what this file is
and where it is saved !
As I said, you just need to create a folder (ie Theme folder on your Documents) and store all the .blend containing different themes. The name of the .blend doesn’t matter so you can use explicit one.
But yes, the system of 2.49 is better because you can store py files ‘inside’ Blender and change the theme directly inside the soft without deleting the work your doing at this moment.
i have written a script that exports and imports theme files from blender, however i have some problems integrating it well in the UI (inexperience with python). however it works very well, and i will share it once it’s done.
Everything is good except the selection colors. They look queer, you should go for one of the 4 base colors for selection. Red or maybe organge…but some people might like it. Good job
Haven’t road tested it much yet but thanks! I had a light grey theme for 2.5something but the settings weren’t transferrable to whatever the next release was.
Nice overall colors for a theme. How do I change a curve’s color when in edit mode other than black? It’s hard to recognize it when you have a reference object in the background in wire mode and also in black.
I like this theme. I mean the overall color scheme, not necessarily the windows configurations. But I can’t seem to find where I could change the color of the text on the search field (on spacebar press). Background and text have both dark colors, which makes the text unreadable.
On a related note, I wrote a theme export script that should work (haven’t tested with the latest Python 3.2 changes) if you’re interested in just sharing themes. It basically generates a python script that sets your theme colors when you run it from within Blender. It’s here: http://www.handturkeystudios.com/files/theme_export.zip
It could stand to have a bit more work done to it (perhaps integrating with User Preferences or working as a proper add-on), but it has served my purposes thusfar.
