Zen Sets N-Panel

N-Panel contains all Zen Sets addon functionality and consits of Main, Import-Export, Tools, Preferences and Help collapsible subpanels.

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Compact UI

Compact N-Panel has several categories, which can be chosen via tabs (the icons column to its left). Each tab regroups different addon tasks, and is documented in its own manual sections

Switch Tabs

Multiple Tabs	Pinned Tabs

Main Subpanel

Contains all basic functionality for managing Zen Sets

Active Zen Sets Element Switch

Gives an option to change type of mesh geometry (vertex, edge or face) that can be assigned to a group

Active Zen Sets Mode Switch

Sets mode

One element (Vertex, Edge, Face) may be assigned to more than one group and only active group is displayed in the viewport

Parts mode

One element (Vertex, Edge, Face) may belong only to one group and all groups or active group can be displayed in the viewport

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Groups List

Contains the following information:

• Group Color
• Group Name
• Mesh Elements Count Shows how many mesh elements (verts, edges or faces) are in the current group
• Objects Count Shows how many objects in edit mode has elements with the same group
• Visibility Group Icon (eye icon)
  • Group is completely visible
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  • Group is partially visible
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  • Group is completely hidden
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Toolbar

The Toolbar shows Groups List main settings and Display toggle button

• Display Groups in Viewport

• Selection follows Selected Group (Select all elements after Selected Group has been changed)

• Auto Frame Selected Elements (Move the view to the Selected elements center when selection changes)

• Display count of objects that have the Group

• Display hidden Groups Info

• Display all scene Groups or selected object groups

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Sidebar

Add New Group

Creates new Group from selected mesh elements

Delete Active Group

Deletes Active Group from the selected Objects

Show Popup menu

Shows main panel Popup menu

Move Active Group Up

Moves active Group up in the Group List

Move Active Group Down

Moves active Group down in the Group List

Delete Groups

• Empty Groups Deletes Groups that does not contain any mesh elements
• Delete All Groups
  • Deletes all groups in the Scene if Display all scene Groups option is set
  • Deletes all groups in the Selected Objects if Display all scene Groups option is unset

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Main panel Popup Menu

Select all objects by Group ID

Selects and adds to the Edit Mode all Objects that has the Active Group elements

Batch rename Groups

Option to rename all Groups in the list

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Selection to group

Append

Appends selected Elements to selected Group

Remove

Removes selected Elements from selected Group

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Group to selection

Select

Selects Elements of selected Group - Clear selection - an option to clear previous selection

Select more than one group using N-Panel

1. Disable Selection follows Selected Group option
2. Disable Clear Selection option

Select more than one group in the viewport

1) Select element from group 1 2) Alt + F2 - select all group 1 and make it primary 3) Shift + select element from group 2 4) Alt + F3 - extend selection with all elements from group 2

Deselect

Removes selected Group Elements from mesh selection

Intersect

Selects Group Elements intersected with mesh selection

Select ungrouped

Selects Group Elements that do not belong to any Group

Smart select

Depends on selected mesh elements and has the next behaviour:

• Select Group by selected Elements in Viewport If mesh selection belongs to Zen Sets group, all group elements are selected and other elements are deselected

• Deselect Active Group and select Elements that does not belong to any group If mesh selection does not belong to any Zen Sets group, the active group is deselected and all mesh elements that don’t have group metainformation are selected

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Display group

Hide

Hides active group

Unhide

Unhides active group

Isolate

Hides elements that don’t belong to active group or restore (unhide) all elements if the group was previously isolated

Smart isolate

Isolate all Groups that are present in multiselection or restore all Groups

Display

Toggles the display of the active group in Sets mode or all groups in Parts mode. Also you can hide, unhide active group or hide elements that don’t belong to the active group

UV Editor Display Options

Display modified mesh

Blender Modifiers can affect an object’s geometry in a non-destructive way. They work by changing how an object is displayed and rendered, but not the geometry which you can edit directly.

By default, Zen Sets groups are displayed on the base object geometry but it is available with some performance loses see it on modified geometry.

• Standard Display Mode
• Modified Display Mode

Palette Panel

Gives an option to adjust user colors when a new color is generated for new group

Auto Mode

Colors are created in random order of Zen Sets default palette

User Palette Mode

Colors are selected from user palette

• Sequence Mode
• Random Mode

Assign Color from Palette

Example how to download and use custom palette

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Import-Export Subpanel

Tools Subpanel

Help Subpanel