BQt

Add QT support to Blender, letting you create custom UI for your addons with PySide2 QtWidgets.

Features

feature	description
fully custom UI	Instead of feeling limited by N-Panel only UI. Do whatever you want.
cross app	Qt widgets run nativaly in Krita, 3ds Max, Maya, … and are great to use in cross dcc pipelines
existing community	hundreds of QT widgets on GitHub you can reuse, and lots of stack exchange questions answered regarding qt.
Themed	BQt applies the blender-qt-stylesheet so qt widgets will by default look similar to Blender.

Requirements

• Blender 2.83or higher.
• Windows or Mac
• PySide2
• PyObjC & iterm2 (Mac only)

How to use

1. Install & enable the bqt addon (see installation docs)
2. Create & show your Qt widget, bqt will automatically register it with it's widget manager.

• The bqt env vars let you toggle bqt features on and off
• sample code: bqt_demo shows you how to use bqt with several qt demos you can run in Blender

contribute

• i'm a technical writer and want to contribute to the docs. see readme on the wiki.
• i'm a dev and want to contribute to bqt code, see contribute guidelines.
• i'm a user or tester and want to report a bug or request a feature, please post here

Community

Discuss BQt on

• the BlenderArtists thread
• Ynput thread