Cool Addons Menu for Blender
Cool Addons Menu is an addon for Blender.
It avoids you to have to navigate through the vertical addons tabs of the N-panel.
Cool Addons Menu automatically identifies your activated addons and displays them in a sortable list. It allows direct access to their UI panel and preferences page.
Cool Addons Menu also saves your last 5 recently used addons and proposes a simple search feature.
Features list:
a/ Addons list
The Addon list will automatically detect and list your activated addons.
Only the addons that have a panel in the N-Panel will be listed.
If you install new addons or uninstall or enable/disable addons, Cool Addons Menu will dynamically update its lists.
The addons are listed alphabetically.The current version of each addon is listed beside the name.
If you click the "Sort by N-Panel tabs" checkbox, the addons will be categorized by the N-Panel tab they are located in.
The tabs are listed alphabetically.
The number after the name indicated the number of addons found in the tab.
Just click on a tab to view the addons it contains.
b/ Access the addon panel
Just click on the addon you want to use. It will open its panel.
You can let the Cool Addons Menu window opened or close it by clickin the Ok or Cancel button or by clicking outside of the window.
To display back the addons list, click again on "Cool Addons Menu" button.
c/ Access the addon preferences page of your addons
Just click the gear button to access the preferences configuration page of the selected addon
d/ Addons finder
The addons finder let you type whatever string you want to search.
Type a string and press the find button.
It will filter the list with only the addons that contains the string you type in their name.
Click the x button to unfilter the list again
e/ Recently used
This area will not appear until you select at least one first addon.
The 5 last addons you have reached from Cool Addons Menu will appear in the "Recently used" list
From this list, you can select any addon and access it UI panel or preferences page the same way than the main list.
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Cool Addons Menu is an addon for Blender. It avoids you to have to navigate through the vertical addons tabs of the N-panel. Cool Addons Menu automatically identifies your activated addons and displays them in a sortable list. It allows direct access to their UI panel and preferences page.