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VRED New User Experience (2024)

The new VRED user experience was a huge undertaking and can be seen throughout the software. Icons, tree layouts, and QuickActions Bars have been redesigned, new docking functionality and color themes have been implemented, along with updates to the View Cube design and functionality.

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Color Themes

You can now change the color theme used in VRED. Choose from dark grey, dark blue, and light.

Dark Grey Color, Dark Blue Color, Light Color theme

In the Window menu, select Color Themes and choose a theme color. Since VRED uses colors throughout the UI to help to indicate states or to differentiate one field from another, these will vary slightly from one theme to the next.

Button/Checkbox/Field Coloring

In modules, button, checkbox, and field coloring indicates changes to indicate its state.

  • When active, these are framed or underlined pale blue.

    Active button, checkbox, or field coloring

  • When hovered, these are framed or underlined pale blue.

    Hovered button, checkbox, or field coloring

Tab Coloring

When a tab is selected, a blue line appears above it, indicating it's active.

Module with selected and non-selected tabs

Toolbar Icon Coloring

Toolbar icon coloring indicates changes to indicate its state.

Toolbar Icon Coloring

  • When active, icons are gold and underlined blue.
  • When inactive, icons are white.
  • When hovered, icons are underlined pale blue.

Multi-field Coloring

Options with multiple fields use color to differentiate one field from another.

  • For fields with XYZ values, X fields have a red line, Y have a green, and Z have a blue.

    XYZ field coloring

  • For fields with UV values, U fields have a red line and V have a green.

    UV field coloring

Tree Coloring

The coloring in the various tree views can indicate the state, hierarchy, or even whether something is a clone.

  • When tree items are selected, these are highlighted blue.

    Selection color

  • When tree items are cloned, the selected clone is underlined and white and others are underlined and orange.

    Clone color and underlining

Icon and QuickActions Bar Redesign

The QuickActions Bar in all modules and editors has been moved to below the Menu Bar.

QuickActions Bar move

Tree Layout Redesign

In the Scenegraph, you will notice the tree has been refreshed, making it easier to read and displaying more content in less space to reduce scrolling.

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QuickActions Bar move QuickActions Bar move

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