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  • Published 12 Nov 2019

Highlight/Overlay objects with scale / rotation not yet applied in object mode

Since objects having scale / rotation not applied in object mode causes lots of issues (modifier stack, animations, etc), it would be great to add an overlay option to show these objects highlighted in some way (red border) in object mode until those transforms are applied.

I think this one would save everyone a lot of headache - cause there's just no way to 'see' that they haven't been applied.

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JeffG
12 Nov 2019

4 Comments

jason

This sounds like something that could easily be done with an add-on. Something along the lines of this: 

bpy.ops.object.select_all(action="DESELECT")

for ob in bpy.data.objects:
    if ((ob.scale != Vector((1, 1, 1,)) or (ob.rotation_euler != Euler((0, 0, 0), "XYZ"))):
        ob.select_set(True)

The site kind of botched my indents and you'd want to add additional checks for other rotation types (and should probably exclude objects like the camera and maybe lights), but this will select every object that doesn't have their scale or rotation applied.

JeffG Author

* @Jason van Gumster * - definitely true, but, due to the confusion it causes those new to blender, would be best if fit into core engine imho

jason

* @JeffG * An add-on can still ship with Blender. Cycles does.

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JeffG Author

* @Jason van Gumster * - Good point