Right ive made a cube, Wow you say. Now i have selected the cube, where are the properties for this cube. I mean points, polys, material, surface, textures, position and all other such data.
Is there one place i can find all the information, like a properties panel, ive been all over the right hand side panel and cannot find anything. Is there just one place.
what informations are you looking for precisely ? you can find them on the different tabs of the Properties panel, depending on what you want: Location is on the Object tab, material on the Material tab, vertex groups on Object Data tab, etc…
last i remember you hit tab to enter the editing mode
and hit N on to open the property panel
also i think you should watch
Hi, thanks for your reply. Ive been through each of the icons in the right hand panel to the left and not one is showing me any data.
Yes i can see if there are any modifiers or such, but no basic data of the like is described above. Just basic stuff, how many polys, faces, points, colour, which if any textures or materials are applied.
the number of vertices is displayed on the bottom bar, on the right, but there is nothing that synthesized all the informations of a selected object if this is what you mean, you have to go from a tab to another, and for the material there is now way to quickly check if it uses it or not… it’s a bit mess to understand at the beginning for sure
Hi, yes it is indeed, it seems to be poorly thought out. I would have thought that like most 3d apps this is a basic thing. In the attached picture i have tried every single tab on the left of the right hand panel and frankly there is not one bit of useful basic information on the light that i have selected. All i get is a tools and tool button.
for the light you need to select it and click the Object Data tab on the right (with a light bulb icon)
Go to File->Defaults->Load Factory Settings (which will revert your scene to the defaults and start you up with no 3rd party addons etc.) and then select the light in the default scene and look at the tabs in the lower right again.
I suspect you have perhaps installed an add-on which isn’t compatible with the current version and that (or something anyway) is interfering with the operation of the Properties panel because it’s clearly not working right here.
Thanks Gavin, i will give that a try.
agree with @Zoot, looks like you’ve got some addon corrupting your environment.
Addons are great, but it’s good to start with the barebones to get an understanding of what is happening under the hood.
regarding object statistics, if you are in edit mode on an object, the bottom status bar will show how the count of vert/edge/face elements for that object.
This is all because of the new preferences autosaving. @ideasman42 here is a very good showcase about what to put as a default, by set autosaving as default, easily we end up with this kind of case where the new user have very confusing UI, with every activated addon ( even those were just for testing or following tutorials). It will be good to turn off autosaving by default, if someone wants to autosave then he can activate it, knowing what is doing.
I think it’s somewhat hard to blame Auto-Save Preferences if a bad add-on completely messes up your UI. Most people installing add-ons likely expect them to persist.
There are certainly lots of interesting discussions to be had around auto-save, but I’m not sure this particular issue has much to say on the topic.
2.80 is in a pretty good place regarding UI personalization and you can do some rather amazing things with it. But much of this isn’t super-obvious and I’m not sure it’s possible to make it much more so. There’s a definite need for some comprehensive documentation/tutorials/classes to teach people how to master the possibilities.
I agree, overall i like the UI compared to 2.79 as someone coming from another 3d app.
Yes there are still some things that need addressing like the sidebar and all the addons being dumped there with no means to edit it, that seems to be a bit messy. I wonder if its possible to have two or more sidebars with tabs, that would make it easier i think.
I would however say i think i like BforArtists UI a little better, but of course this is a fork of Blender.
If it hasn’t messed things up too badly, you can toggle on/off each add-on for the current workspace and that might make it obvious which one it is:
This is also at least an improvement towards the issue of too many N panel vertical tabls for add-ons. You only need to enable the addons you need in each Workspace, so that can keep you from having to see things that aren’t applicable, or you can just use it as a convenient way to turn on and off add-ons that you’re not using at this particular moment.
Sad it that my wording came out blaming, what i wanted is to rise conversation and this type of decision shouldn’t be rushed. There is a Diff in the tracker that will bring some modifications on this behavior, that is why showcase like this should be good to take into consideration.
Only if the add-on gives what you want, one can test the add-on and realize that it was not it or he had a better add-on. Or in my case i keep my UI minimal so only add-on in the given task will be activated.
We at least got in some changes to #2 last week that are seen here. The “Skip Auto-Save” is now a real checkbox that can be re-enabled if you happen to click on it for fun, and it now has a tooltip to try to explain what it means. Before that it was basically a “destroy all my settings” button, with no tooltip and no hint of what exactly would happen if you clicked it, and once you clicked it it just vanished and then you were doomed unless you were smart enough to go into the menu and disable Auto-Save 
All this behavior has been evolving over the last several months and I’m sure there will be more changes for 2.81. Personally, I’d like to bring the “Auto-Save Preferences” enable checkbox back out of the hamburger menu so it’s right there in your face and not hidden away.
I found the problem addon. Its called “Tabs interface by Vilém Duha”, seems to bork the UI.
Shame as it was a good addon to sort out the sidepanel tabs.
Yeah, that one looks very 2.79-specific and there’s probably just not a 2.80 version yet.
