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Changing Icons for Physics and Particle related Modifiers
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Authored by Adrian Newton (TFS) on Mar 9 2020, 12:32 PM.

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Brecht Van Lommel (brecht)
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In the current Simulate Modifier stack, there are modifiers that refer to other parts of the Properties Panel, namely to Particles and Physics. This Diff changes the default icon which is currently set to display the Properties Icon to a more relevant icon for Particles and Physics related modifiers.

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I'm not sure this is better, we use this icon also for textures to mean "edit the properties of this". I think we should have a single standard icon for that purpose.

It might be possible to design a better one. But with this physics/particle icon it looks more like something that indicates the category of modifier than something you click to go edit the properties.

Brecht Van Lommel (brecht) requested changes to this revision.Mar 9 2020, 3:52 PM
This revision now requires changes to proceed.Mar 9 2020, 3:52 PM

The only other suggestion is a 'Settings' type icon, but in this case it's already taken as the Icon for 'Preferences', namely ICON_PREFERENCES.

If we used this icon to suggest links to furthers settings, would this confuse people who may think it would be taking them to the Preferences Editor?

I suggest we just don't make any changes here.