N Panel Sub Tabs

What is N Panel Sub Tabs

N Panel Sub Tabs is a Blender addon to manage the Blender sidebar(also known as N Panel). It introduces the concept of Sub Tabs. It can make your N Panel clean and organized, even if you have hundreds of addons. As we know, the Blender sidebar becomes more and more crowded as the number of addons increases, making it difficult to access the corresponding addons. I thought about categorizing and adding Sub Tabs on the top of each category. I searched for such addons on the market. Unfortunately not found, but found Simple Tabs. It doesn't have Sub Tabs on each category but it does have categorizing. So I introduced the Sub Tabs, and implemented an easy and organized management setting UI, and referenced to the categorizing of Simple Tabs, and finally implemented this addon. Thanks for the Simple Tabs.

Quickly switch sub tabs

In the Sub Tabs Panel(also called Title Panel), you can switch your tabs quickly. You can put similar tabs into a category. For example, put rig-related tabs into a category, and put material-related tabs into another category. You can also put some workflow-related tabs into a category. It's up to you. A tab can be placed in multiple categories, but it will only be shown in the last category that enabled it. See Doc for details.

Easy and organized setting UI

In settings Panel, you can manage categories and tabs, and apply settings etc. For example, categories management: add/remove/rename category, reorder categories, fold/unfold all categories, fold/unfold single category. Tabs management: add/remove tab, reorder tabs. After you change the categories settings, remember to click the Apply button to update the sidebar.

Addon preferences

You can change some addon preferences in here. For example, Max Tabs Each Row can decide the max number of the tabs each row showing in the Sub Tabs Panel(you can also call it Title Panel). You can decide auto/manually apply categories setting on Blender startup by checking/unchecking the Auto Apply On Startup option. If you choose auto-apply, there are some things to note.

Tips and Troubles shooting:

Tips:

• If you change the categories settings or import them from a file, remember to apply the settings.
• If you update the Exclude Tabs in the Addon Preferences, remember to restart Blender.
• If the auto-apply categories settings do not work on Blender startup, you can manually apply, they are the same thing.
• If you disable this addon, the categories settings will be lost. If you want to disable this addon and your settings are important, remember to export them in the addon references.
• Other than disabling this addon, you can just uncheck the Auto Apply On Startup option and not apply manually. This addon will do nothing to your sidebar. In this case, you can get your original categories or use the other N Panel manage addon.
• Don't use T as a category name, it's a reserved category name. 

Troubles shooting:

• Most of the problems I encountered have been included in the FAQ, and you can see them on Blender Market.
• If you have any trouble or feedback, please contact us.