Tooltip overhaul: Specify units for fields, especially in physics/simulations settings.
Been an amatuer blender user for about 10 years, and after all this time the tooltips for various settings fields (particularly settings for physics and simulations, but not exclusively) are still a nightmare. They are so lacking in detail that it actively discourages users from attempting to use them, given the long computational times often make "trial and error" testing for most users impractical.
Settings are also lacking in consistency - increase the value of many settings and it increases the given effect... but increasing others will DECREASE the effect.
These issues are problematic largely due to the almost total lack of any mention of what units the setting fields are measured in. Are the values in frames? Seconds? Meters or BU's? Degrees or Radians? At the very least if a specific unit is not applicable to the setting, it should state if increasing or decreasing the setting value will increase or decrease the relevant effect. Does changing this value from 1 to 5 increase the effect of this setting, or decrease it? Will this change make it more, or less?
There needs to be a major improvement in the tooltips for settings fields so that they are actually useful, especially for new or inexperienced users. We should know, by reading the tooltip, exactly what units it is being measured in or at least what effect increasing or decreasing the value will have.
There are a small number of fields which have this info, but most do not. For those, the only solutions are to google and guess, or extremely time consuming trial and error. A simple update or addon that improves the quality of information in tooltips would not need to change the UI in any other way, and should be relatively straight forward to implement.
I think this would drastically improve usability and reduce guesswork, particularly for the more advanced features like physics sims but would even be useful for more simple items (like the nodes measured in radians rather than degrees as most people would logically assume).
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