Proposal: User Interface components and game engine

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
1

It would be nice if changing from Blender Internal to Blender game engine mode would remove all UI features that are not available for game engine.

And in turn, if there were any, game engine only components would be added.

So in short, I would love to see User Interface to be reworked to fit for game engine use when switching modes.

For example if I have a large project and I create new textures. For now, by default I end up having Texture Type Cloud (procedural), which ofcourse is no use for game engine at all.
This is just one sample and in big picture would save us many clicks and fizzling if these “mute” features were not visible in game engine mode.

2

This would be a cool thing to work on, yeah. It’s far, far better than it used to be with 2.49, but there’s still quite a bit that can’t directly be used in the BGE (for example, the different transparency modes in the material panel, or a good portion of the options under Options there).

EDIT: Also, it should be relatively simple and short to work on the options in the Material panel, I’d think.

3

Unfortunately I have no idea how to change this settings.

I guess the most work is to work out all options available or not available.

4

I was thinking about this the other day also (want to add a “Publishing” tab to Properties for BGE mode). This would make a good intro project to coding in Blender/BGE. The whole interface is in Python so it shouldn’t be too difficult if you know Python.

5

Here’s the problem:

  • I have to keep changing between game engine and render mode for things like baking ambient occlusion.

In fact, baking anything requires nearly all the render tools to be there.
But I suppose it’s just a problem with my workflow.

6

For baking single objects I usually have extra Blender instance open for those and other one just for the game itself.

7

i personally agree, already asked for , time ago.

there so many tool useless that will be more simple start with a UI empty.
then add step by step what lack