Panels¶
InteractionOps has two kinds of panels: popup panels that appear under the mouse on a hotkey and vanish when you move away, and sidebar panels docked in 3D View › N-panel › iOps tab. The sidebar tab name can be changed in Preferences › iOps › General.
TPS (Transform / Pivot / Snap)¶
Everything about how transforms behave, in one popup: gizmos, orientation, pivot point, snapping and the eight Snap Combo slots. In the UV Editor it shows UV select modes, pivot and UV snapping instead.
Hotkey: Shift+Mouse Button 4 (3D View and UV Editor)
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Lock cursor, Rotate around active, Auto Merge, Auto Merge & Split, Correct Face Attributes, Keep Connected, Live Unwrap | Common tool-setting toggles |
| Create orientation | New custom transform orientation from the selection |
| Homogenize UV names | Rename UV maps on the selection to ch1, ch2, ... |
| UV cleanup | Remove all UV maps from the selection |
| Name from Active | Rename the selection after the active object |
| M / R / S | Show the move / rotate / scale gizmo |
| Orientation, rename, delete | Manage transform orientations |
| Pivot Point, Edit Origin, Only Locations, Skip Children | Pivot settings |
| Snap to, Target, Self, Align Rotation, Backface Culling, Selectable, Move / Rotate / Scale, angle increment | Snap settings |
| A – H | Snap Combo slots: click to recall, Shift+click to save |
| Smooth / Flat / Auto Smooth 30°–180° | Shading shortcuts (with MACHIN3tools installed) |
| Reload Images, display channels, Repeat | UV Editor header row |
Transform¶
A compact popup with the active object's location, rotation, scale and dimensions, so you can type exact values without opening the N-panel.
Hotkey: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T (Object Mode)
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Location / Rotation / Scale | Edit the active object's transform |
| Dimensions | Resize the object by its real size |
| Apply to Selected | Push the typed dimensions to every selected object |
| Reset Scale to 1 | Bake the new size into the mesh and reset scale |
| Ignore Modifiers | Measure the base mesh, not the modified result |
Data¶
The active mesh's UV maps, colour attributes, vertex groups and material slots side by side, with add / remove / assign buttons — a popup version of the Object Data tab.
Hotkey: Ctrl+Shift+Mouse Button 4 (3D View and UV Editor, mesh active)
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Homogenize UV names | Rename UV maps to ch1, ch2, ... on the selection |
| All, 2+, 3+ ... 8 | Keep only the first N UV maps on the selection (All removes every one) |
| UVMaps list: +, -, set active by object, set active by name, sort, channel hop | Manage UV maps across the selection |
| Color Attributes list: +, -, menu | Manage colour attributes |
| Vertex Groups list: +, -, menu, up / down, Assign / Remove / Select / Deselect, Weight | Manage vertex groups |
| Materials list: +, -, menu, up / down, material picker, Assign / Select / Deselect | Manage material slots |
Modifiers¶
A modifier stack you can drive with modifier keys. The icon grid adds or manages a modifier type on the whole selection; the tool row cleans and sorts stacks; the list below edits the active object's stack row by row. Also docked in the sidebar.
Hotkey: Alt+Shift+RMB
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Icon grid (click) | Add that modifier type to the selection with your preset defaults |
| Icon grid, Ctrl | Apply all modifiers of that type |
| Icon grid, Alt | Remove all modifiers of that type |
| Icon grid, Shift | Toggle viewport visibility of that type |
| Icon grid, last + button | Blender's own Add Modifier menu, for types not in the grid |
| Sort | Order stacks by the Sort Order set in preferences: rules of modifier type + optional comma-separated names (default: Geometry Nodes "Smooth by Angle" / Mirror / Array on top, Simple Deform / Weighted Normal / Triangulate at the bottom; everything else keeps its order). Also remaps geometry-nodes modifiers from .001-style duplicate node groups to the base-named group and deletes the unused duplicates (toggle in the redo panel) |
| Cleanup | Remove modifiers that do nothing (empty targets, zero values). Alt: also remove modifiers disabled in the viewport |
| Sync Vis | Make render visibility match viewport visibility |
| Cursor Target | Create an empty at the 3D cursor and use it as the modifier target |
| Active Target | Use the active object as the modifier target on the others |
| Users | Select objects whose modifiers reference the active object |
| Safe Apply | Apply transforms without breaking distance-based modifier settings |
| Adaptive Decimate | Add a curvature-aware Geometry Nodes decimate |
| Apply All | Bake the whole stack into the mesh |
| Stack row: expand, name, eye, up, down, apply, copy to selected, remove, save preset | Per-modifier actions. Alt runs the action on every selected object with the same modifier; Shift picks the variant (to top / bottom, render visibility, apply up to here) |
Collection Append¶
Turn a linked collection instance into local, editable collections: scan the source file, tick the collections you want, append. Sidebar panel (Object Mode).
Hotkey: None — sidebar panel.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Scan Collections | List the collections inside the selected linked instance |
| Collection list with checkboxes, Select All / Deselect All | Choose what to bring in |
| Append (N selected) | Append the chosen collections into the scene |
Vertex Color¶
Quick vertex colouring: pick a colour or palette swatch and stamp it onto the selection. Sidebar panel.
Hotkey: None — sidebar panel.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Colour picker, palette | Choose the colour |
| Set Color | Assign the colour to the selected vertices / faces |
| Set Alpha | Assign the alpha value only |
Object Color¶
Set the viewport object colour of the selection and keep a row of recent colours. Sidebar panel.
Hotkey: None — sidebar panel.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Colour picker | Choose the colour |
| Copy From Active | Load the active object's colour into the picker |
| Apply Color | Apply the picker colour to all selected objects |
| Recent swatches | Click a numbered swatch to apply that colour again |
Selection Sets¶
Named vertex / edge / face selections stored on the mesh. Save, recall, replace and combine them; the same controls are also in the 3D View header as a popover. Sidebar panel (Edit Mesh).
Hotkey: None — sidebar panel and header popover.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Set list | Pick the active set; shows element type and a stale warning |
| + / - / rename / refresh / trash | Create, delete, rename, refresh all, delete all |
| Select Set | Select the stored elements |
| Replace | Overwrite the set with the current selection |
| Extend / Subtract / Intersect / Difference | Combine the current selection with the set (Shift: write the result into the set) |
| Preview (eye) | Highlight the set in the viewport without selecting |
Material Override¶
Set or clear the view layer's material override from a list of scene materials — a clay / checker / lighting pass without touching the objects.
Hotkey: Not bound by default — assign a key to View Layer Material Override in Preferences › iOps › Keymaps.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Current Override + Clear | Show and remove the active override |
| Fancy Mode | Show material previews instead of plain names |
| Material buttons | Set that material as the override (checkmark = active) |
| Refresh / Generate All Previews | Rebuild the preview thumbnails |
Library¶
Home of the iOps master asset library: point it at a master file, publish things into it, refresh, and open the popup palette. Sidebar panel.
Hotkey: None — sidebar panel (the popup itself is Ctrl+Alt+Q).
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Master, Find Master | Choose or locate the master library file |
| Refresh Library | Re-sync the catalog |
| Clean Unlinked Assets | Remove assets whose source is gone |
| Publish Active Object / Collection / Material / Geometry Nodes / Shader Group | Add to the library |
| Open Library Popup | Open the Library Popup |
| Preview size | Thumbnail size in the popup |
| Status, Queue | Background sync progress |
Executor¶
A popup list of your own Python scripts from the Executor folder — click a name to run it. Type in the search box to filter.
Hotkey: Ctrl+Alt+Shift+X
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search field | Fuzzy-filter the script list |
| Script name | Run that script |
The folder, column count and name length are set in Preferences › iOps › Script Executor.
Widgets¶
A popup list of the GPU widgets defined in your widgets folder (JSON). Click a widget to show or hide its on-screen panel; opening the list also reloads edited widget files.
Hotkey: Not bound by default — assign a key to IOPS Widgets Panel in Preferences › iOps › Keymaps.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| Widget name | Toggle that widget in the viewport |
Widgets are composed in Preferences › iOps › Widgets.
UV Tools¶
A small sidebar panel in the UV Editor (N-panel › iOps) with the two UV helpers.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| UV Info Rect | Drag a rectangle in the UV editor to read its min / max / size; the values are copied to the clipboard |
| Drag Snap UV | Drag Snap UV: drag a UV vertex onto another one |