Improved Drag and Drop in Blender 2.5

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Recently a lot of work has gone into making drag and drop more stable and far more usful which means being able to drag items from outside blender.

Previous use of drag and drop in 2.5 was limited to only in blender itself like from the outliner and such but now you can drag content from outside blender like windows explorer or finder or even qwenview

These improvements are not  only limited to image, you can also drag into any movie files that blender can handle.

Thanks to William Reynish who has made some demo videos.

Truly Exciting times ahead.

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    • ZareOne

      Cool!

      It would be nice if the video is inserted with the 1st frame where the marker is when you drop it in the timeline.

    • http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub/ panzi

      Very nice!

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Wow ! The ability of applying a texture on an object directly by dragging from an outside source is amazing !

    • makapuf

      @ROUBAL : indeed, cool it is.

      Now, even better would be to also be able to drop image on faces in edit mode. Or materials internally (maybe it’s possible)

    • comeinandburn

      Great work Developers!!!!!

      Will this be extended to include internal operations? like dragging a material from one item to another to copy it?

      thanks for all your hard work!!!

    • http://www.sone-works.de sebih

      What about a way to export materials (+ additional data e.g. yafaray), either into file or directly to a web material repository, and being able to drop materials from some kind of a material list onto objects.

      Definitely great work, bright future for blender!

    • http://3615malife.over-blog.com TiPi

      Totaly amazing ^^

    • alalo

      ha! Neat :)

      Just to note, broken added that functionality to text editor.

    • JCAA

      yAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Blender every time is going beyond

    • http://anfeonet.blogspot.com/ Anfeo

      This feature kill all the legend of Blender’s Interface problem.

    • Gerbin

      pure awesomeness!

    • redbyte

      WOW! The coolest feature for me was the realtime video scrub.
      Outstanding work developers! Thank you!

    • http://ndundupan.blogspot.com ndundupan

      very cool. like adobe premiere :D.

    • stdecden

      Wouldn’t it be fine if we could open up all materials in a new window and than drag ‘em directly onto a mesh

    • MmAaXx

      :D thankyou!

    • http://boombox.se/image/tid/22 Arru

      Exciting times indeed! Blender’s UI has improved to such a degree that I sense a breakthrough soon. Or not. Either way, I’m happy as a clam!

    • A saurus1

      @stdecden
      That would be nice. But it would require that we create a format for saving materials, such as “.bmat” that one could then create a library out of. Of course, this would be a great idea anyway, so I don’t see why someone hasn’t coded it yet.

    • http://www.byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      This will make so many things so much easier!

    • Ignatz

      This is very exciting stuff. The drag and drop of images is sort of working in the latest test release I have tried (28708 – Win 32-bit). The display is correct, but the proper texturing settings are not being automatically made so that the texture is not there when rendered. Nevertheless, the whole thing looks ‘sexy’ and promises future goodness. I say “Great Stuff!”. I’m looking forward to more. :-)

    • Dayanto

      This is something that makes things a lot easier and faster in many situations.

      How about drag and drop for python files? (from outside Blender) That could also save some time.

    • Double Z.

      I like using the “drag&drop” tool if it’s available in applications so… THANK YOU !!!

    • melon

      Amazing, I’ve been waitingfor so long for something like that!

      Blender starts to blend in the desktop! SWEEEEET!

    • http://www.smick.net smick

      This is how you capture a LOT more enthusiasts to 3D. The easier something is, the easier it is to show it to people. They grasp it, they try it, they teach others.

      Nice work everyone absolutely! Can’t wait to play with this.

    • alalo

      @Dayanto I said that broken added text drag and drop to the text editor. Does that work for you? Or do you mean something strange like dropping a python file in Blender and it gets automatically executed? I guess the first one? :)

    • http://www.cgex.net CGEX

      I am already thinking to start to build Blender temple with Ton’s and other developers statues in it… :D

    • veQue

      Very nice, Indeed

    • http://www.visnevskis.com/ kivig

      Cool and long waited.
      Really should improve “sketching” and conversion speed through sequence editor.

    • PG

      This is sweet! Thanks for all your work on this. Can you please tell me what build this is in? Also, when you add movies to the sequencer does it make Blender like a Compositor like After Effects, can I trim movies and add Audio in there?

    • A saurus1

      @PG
      Blender is not equipped to handle large editing projects like After Effects is. For one, the sequence editor in 2.5 is not easy to work with yet (for instance, there’s no way of setting the targets of a mix effect). However, if you need to use it for short projects, it should be adequate. This will be included in any of the latest trunk builds from http://www.graphicall.org. For windows, the two main builders for these are cog and loopduplicate.

    • Kewl Luser

      pretty cool =D

    • Brian Lockett

      Man, that’s awesome! Keep it up, awesome Blender developers!

    • http://foreverblender.blogspot.com Demohero

      This one is the huge step for Blender 2.5

      Thank you!

    • http://etyekfilm.hu endi

      this is unusable for me…

      and I am a professional! wow! and unusable! hah!

    • http://shanenewville.deviantart.com Shane Newville

      Wow! Can’t wait to get this put to use. Between this and the new audio sync features (using Jack) Blender’s turning into one mean piece of software. Now all we need is more features with video compositing/effects (like ParticleIllusion, AfterEffects, etc…) and we’re set for life.

    • Dayanto

      @alalo Oh… I hadn’t seen your comment when I posted. :P It’s great that it exists!

    • renderiche

      It doesn’t work for me :( (Linux Ubuntu 64)

      It works, though, with file browser by duplicated blender window, but not with nautilus.

    • Symphony

      hey very cool!!

    • http://klik.pl melon

      renderiche: I have similar issue with Ubuntu 10.04 (64bit).

      @Developers: does that feature work on 64bit Linux platforms?

    • http://meshweaver.blogspot.com/ MeshWeaver

      that is SERIOUSLY cool! gotta get one of those builds…which one is it though? (running 32bit Vista, btw)

      and it’s William from Durian! took me several seconds to recognize him, lol

      GO BLENDER DEVS! thanks for all the great work you’ve all done! :D

    • http://www.izigoo.com Anoki

      Wow ! Drag and Drop is very important for Blender. Specially for people who use Blender the first time. Also for pro users coming from Max or Maya it saves a lot of time.

      Thanks for this great feature. A big step forward for Blender.

    • http://twoday.tuwien.ac.at/pub/ panzi

      When will X11 environments (like Linux) be supported? At least in 2.50 final (or is 2.50 final 2.60?), I hope.

    • http://joped.com Joseph Engo

      Awesome! Really looking forward to the next alpha of 2.5. You guys are doing a great job on it.

    • NollieFlipX

      This is amazing! Thanks for making our lifes better =p!

    • cyrfer

      Glad to see the improvements coming along. However, for this feature, it seems more useful to drag to a material than to an object. You must be assuming that the user wants to apply the texture to the diffuse channel, and only the first texture layer. I noticed it wrote over the texture already applied to one cube in your video. For very simple materials, it looks useful, but for experienced users this doesn’t seem practical.

    • http://www.mindinsomnia.com Aussiedude

      Has there been any consideration into making a ‘Material Library’ or ‘Object Library’, the same was Flash has? So you could just make something, put it in the library, then drag it into the scenes you want it, and edit the library version when you want to. And then you could export/import materials and libraries from the library.

      I really don’t know if this has been considered, hence why I asking, just curious. :3

      And this new feature looks absolutely brilliant, great work devs! You continue to impress! This software has a faster and better development cycle than commercial projects, fantastic work!

    • MmAaXx

      quote totally Aussiedude :)

    • djallalnamri

      simply amazing!

    • http://www.gotem.cz Jen

      Great feature! And what about realtive/absolute paths from aperture,finder etc., that are (are not?) generated for upcomming external scripts (renderers)?