Property(bpy_struct)

base class — bpy_struct

subclasses — BoolProperty, CollectionProperty, EnumProperty, FloatProperty, IntProperty, PointerProperty, StringProperty

class bpy.types.Property(bpy_struct)

RNA property definition

description

Description of the property for tooltips

Type:string, default “”, (readonly, never None)
icon

Icon of the item

Type:enum in [‘NONE’, ‘QUESTION’, ‘ERROR’, ‘CANCEL’, ‘TRIA_RIGHT’, ‘TRIA_DOWN’, ‘TRIA_LEFT’, ‘TRIA_UP’, ‘ARROW_LEFTRIGHT’, ‘PLUS’, ‘DISCLOSURE_TRI_DOWN’, ‘DISCLOSURE_TRI_RIGHT’, ‘RADIOBUT_OFF’, ‘RADIOBUT_ON’, ‘MENU_PANEL’, ‘BLENDER’, ‘GRIP’, ‘DOT’, ‘COLLAPSEMENU’, ‘X’, ‘GO_LEFT’, ‘PLUG’, ‘UI’, ‘NODE’, ‘NODE_SEL’, ‘FULLSCREEN’, ‘SPLITSCREEN’, ‘RIGHTARROW_THIN’, ‘BORDERMOVE’, ‘VIEWZOOM’, ‘ZOOMIN’, ‘ZOOMOUT’, ‘PANEL_CLOSE’, ‘COPY_ID’, ‘EYEDROPPER’, ‘LINK_AREA’, ‘AUTO’, ‘CHECKBOX_DEHLT’, ‘CHECKBOX_HLT’, ‘UNLOCKED’, ‘LOCKED’, ‘UNPINNED’, ‘PINNED’, ‘SCREEN_BACK’, ‘RIGHTARROW’, ‘DOWNARROW_HLT’, ‘DOTSUP’, ‘DOTSDOWN’, ‘LINK’, ‘INLINK’, ‘PLUGIN’, ‘HELP’, ‘GHOST_ENABLED’, ‘COLOR’, ‘LINKED’, ‘UNLINKED’, ‘HAND’, ‘ZOOM_ALL’, ‘ZOOM_SELECTED’, ‘ZOOM_PREVIOUS’, ‘ZOOM_IN’, ‘ZOOM_OUT’, ‘RENDER_REGION’, ‘BORDER_RECT’, ‘BORDER_LASSO’, ‘FREEZE’, ‘STYLUS_PRESSURE’, ‘GHOST_DISABLED’, ‘NEW’, ‘FILE_TICK’, ‘QUIT’, ‘URL’, ‘RECOVER_LAST’, ‘FULLSCREEN_ENTER’, ‘FULLSCREEN_EXIT’, ‘BLANK1’, ‘LAMP’, ‘MATERIAL’, ‘TEXTURE’, ‘ANIM’, ‘WORLD’, ‘SCENE’, ‘EDIT’, ‘GAME’, ‘RADIO’, ‘SCRIPT’, ‘PARTICLES’, ‘PHYSICS’, ‘SPEAKER’, ‘TEXTURE_SHADED’, ‘VIEW3D’, ‘IPO’, ‘OOPS’, ‘BUTS’, ‘FILESEL’, ‘IMAGE_COL’, ‘INFO’, ‘SEQUENCE’, ‘TEXT’, ‘IMASEL’, ‘SOUND’, ‘ACTION’, ‘NLA’, ‘SCRIPTWIN’, ‘TIME’, ‘NODETREE’, ‘LOGIC’, ‘CONSOLE’, ‘PREFERENCES’, ‘CLIP’, ‘ASSET_MANAGER’, ‘OBJECT_DATAMODE’, ‘EDITMODE_HLT’, ‘FACESEL_HLT’, ‘VPAINT_HLT’, ‘TPAINT_HLT’, ‘WPAINT_HLT’, ‘SCULPTMODE_HLT’, ‘POSE_HLT’, ‘PARTICLEMODE’, ‘LIGHTPAINT’, ‘SCENE_DATA’, ‘RENDERLAYERS’, ‘WORLD_DATA’, ‘OBJECT_DATA’, ‘MESH_DATA’, ‘CURVE_DATA’, ‘META_DATA’, ‘LATTICE_DATA’, ‘LAMP_DATA’, ‘MATERIAL_DATA’, ‘TEXTURE_DATA’, ‘ANIM_DATA’, ‘CAMERA_DATA’, ‘PARTICLE_DATA’, ‘LIBRARY_DATA_DIRECT’, ‘GROUP’, ‘ARMATURE_DATA’, ‘POSE_DATA’, ‘BONE_DATA’, ‘CONSTRAINT’, ‘SHAPEKEY_DATA’, ‘CONSTRAINT_BONE’, ‘CAMERA_STEREO’, ‘PACKAGE’, ‘UGLYPACKAGE’, ‘BRUSH_DATA’, ‘IMAGE_DATA’, ‘FILE’, ‘FCURVE’, ‘FONT_DATA’, ‘RENDER_RESULT’, ‘SURFACE_DATA’, ‘EMPTY_DATA’, ‘SETTINGS’, ‘RENDER_ANIMATION’, ‘RENDER_STILL’, ‘LIBRARY_DATA_BROKEN’, ‘BOIDS’, ‘STRANDS’, ‘LIBRARY_DATA_INDIRECT’, ‘GREASEPENCIL’, ‘LINE_DATA’, ‘GROUP_BONE’, ‘GROUP_VERTEX’, ‘GROUP_VCOL’, ‘GROUP_UVS’, ‘RNA’, ‘RNA_ADD’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_EMPTY’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_MESH’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_CURVE’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_LATTICE’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_META’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_LAMP’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_CAMERA’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_ARMATURE’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_FONT’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_SURFACE’, ‘OUTLINER_OB_SPEAKER’, ‘RESTRICT_VIEW_OFF’, ‘RESTRICT_VIEW_ON’, ‘RESTRICT_SELECT_OFF’, ‘RESTRICT_SELECT_ON’, ‘RESTRICT_RENDER_OFF’, ‘RESTRICT_RENDER_ON’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_EMPTY’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_MESH’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_CURVE’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_LATTICE’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_META’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_LAMP’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_CAMERA’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_ARMATURE’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_FONT’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_SURFACE’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_SPEAKER’, ‘OUTLINER_DATA_POSE’, ‘MESH_PLANE’, ‘MESH_CUBE’, ‘MESH_CIRCLE’, ‘MESH_UVSPHERE’, ‘MESH_ICOSPHERE’, ‘MESH_GRID’, ‘MESH_MONKEY’, ‘MESH_CYLINDER’, ‘MESH_TORUS’, ‘MESH_CONE’, ‘MESH_CAPSULE’, ‘LAMP_POINT’, ‘LAMP_SUN’, ‘LAMP_SPOT’, ‘LAMP_HEMI’, ‘LAMP_AREA’, ‘META_EMPTY’, ‘META_PLANE’, ‘META_CUBE’, ‘META_BALL’, ‘META_ELLIPSOID’, ‘META_CAPSULE’, ‘SURFACE_NCURVE’, ‘SURFACE_NCIRCLE’, ‘SURFACE_NSURFACE’, ‘SURFACE_NCYLINDER’, ‘SURFACE_NSPHERE’, ‘SURFACE_NTORUS’, ‘CURVE_BEZCURVE’, ‘CURVE_BEZCIRCLE’, ‘CURVE_NCURVE’, ‘CURVE_NCIRCLE’, ‘CURVE_PATH’, ‘COLOR_RED’, ‘COLOR_GREEN’, ‘COLOR_BLUE’, ‘TRIA_RIGHT_BAR’, ‘TRIA_DOWN_BAR’, ‘TRIA_LEFT_BAR’, ‘TRIA_UP_BAR’, ‘FORCE_FORCE’, ‘FORCE_WIND’, ‘FORCE_VORTEX’, ‘FORCE_MAGNETIC’, ‘FORCE_HARMONIC’, ‘FORCE_CHARGE’, ‘FORCE_LENNARDJONES’, ‘FORCE_TEXTURE’, ‘FORCE_CURVE’, ‘FORCE_BOID’, ‘FORCE_TURBULENCE’, ‘FORCE_DRAG’, ‘FORCE_SMOKEFLOW’, ‘NODE_INSERT_ON’, ‘NODE_INSERT_OFF’, ‘MODIFIER’, ‘MOD_WAVE’, ‘MOD_BUILD’, ‘MOD_DECIM’, ‘MOD_MIRROR’, ‘MOD_SOFT’, ‘MOD_SUBSURF’, ‘HOOK’, ‘MOD_PHYSICS’, ‘MOD_PARTICLES’, ‘MOD_BOOLEAN’, ‘MOD_EDGESPLIT’, ‘MOD_ARRAY’, ‘MOD_UVPROJECT’, ‘MOD_DISPLACE’, ‘MOD_CURVE’, ‘MOD_LATTICE’, ‘CONSTRAINT_DATA’, ‘MOD_ARMATURE’, ‘MOD_SHRINKWRAP’, ‘MOD_CAST’, ‘MOD_MESHDEFORM’, ‘MOD_BEVEL’, ‘MOD_SMOOTH’, ‘MOD_SIMPLEDEFORM’, ‘MOD_MASK’, ‘MOD_CLOTH’, ‘MOD_EXPLODE’, ‘MOD_FLUIDSIM’, ‘MOD_MULTIRES’, ‘MOD_SMOKE’, ‘MOD_SOLIDIFY’, ‘MOD_SCREW’, ‘MOD_VERTEX_WEIGHT’, ‘MOD_DYNAMICPAINT’, ‘MOD_REMESH’, ‘MOD_OCEAN’, ‘MOD_WARP’, ‘MOD_SKIN’, ‘MOD_TRIANGULATE’, ‘MOD_WIREFRAME’, ‘MOD_DATA_TRANSFER’, ‘MOD_NORMALEDIT’, ‘REC’, ‘PLAY’, ‘FF’, ‘REW’, ‘PAUSE’, ‘PREV_KEYFRAME’, ‘NEXT_KEYFRAME’, ‘PLAY_AUDIO’, ‘PLAY_REVERSE’, ‘PREVIEW_RANGE’, ‘ACTION_TWEAK’, ‘PMARKER_ACT’, ‘PMARKER_SEL’, ‘PMARKER’, ‘MARKER_HLT’, ‘MARKER’, ‘SPACE2’, ‘SPACE3’, ‘KEYINGSET’, ‘KEY_DEHLT’, ‘KEY_HLT’, ‘MUTE_IPO_OFF’, ‘MUTE_IPO_ON’, ‘VISIBLE_IPO_OFF’, ‘VISIBLE_IPO_ON’, ‘DRIVER’, ‘SOLO_OFF’, ‘SOLO_ON’, ‘FRAME_PREV’, ‘FRAME_NEXT’, ‘NLA_PUSHDOWN’, ‘IPO_CONSTANT’, ‘IPO_LINEAR’, ‘IPO_BEZIER’, ‘IPO_SINE’, ‘IPO_QUAD’, ‘IPO_CUBIC’, ‘IPO_QUART’, ‘IPO_QUINT’, ‘IPO_EXPO’, ‘IPO_CIRC’, ‘IPO_BOUNCE’, ‘IPO_ELASTIC’, ‘IPO_BACK’, ‘IPO_EASE_IN’, ‘IPO_EASE_OUT’, ‘IPO_EASE_IN_OUT’, ‘VERTEXSEL’, ‘EDGESEL’, ‘FACESEL’, ‘LOOPSEL’, ‘ROTATE’, ‘CURSOR’, ‘ROTATECOLLECTION’, ‘ROTATECENTER’, ‘ROTACTIVE’, ‘ALIGN’, ‘SMOOTHCURVE’, ‘SPHERECURVE’, ‘ROOTCURVE’, ‘SHARPCURVE’, ‘LINCURVE’, ‘NOCURVE’, ‘RNDCURVE’, ‘PROP_OFF’, ‘PROP_ON’, ‘PROP_CON’, ‘SCULPT_DYNTOPO’, ‘PARTICLE_POINT’, ‘PARTICLE_TIP’, ‘PARTICLE_PATH’, ‘MAN_TRANS’, ‘MAN_ROT’, ‘MAN_SCALE’, ‘MANIPUL’, ‘SNAP_OFF’, ‘SNAP_ON’, ‘SNAP_NORMAL’, ‘SNAP_GRID’, ‘SNAP_VERTEX’, ‘SNAP_EDGE’, ‘SNAP_FACE’, ‘SNAP_VOLUME’, ‘SNAP_INCREMENT’, ‘STICKY_UVS_LOC’, ‘STICKY_UVS_DISABLE’, ‘STICKY_UVS_VERT’, ‘CLIPUV_DEHLT’, ‘CLIPUV_HLT’, ‘SNAP_PEEL_OBJECT’, ‘GRID’, ‘PASTEDOWN’, ‘COPYDOWN’, ‘PASTEFLIPUP’, ‘PASTEFLIPDOWN’, ‘SNAP_SURFACE’, ‘AUTOMERGE_ON’, ‘AUTOMERGE_OFF’, ‘RETOPO’, ‘UV_VERTEXSEL’, ‘UV_EDGESEL’, ‘UV_FACESEL’, ‘UV_ISLANDSEL’, ‘UV_SYNC_SELECT’, ‘BBOX’, ‘WIRE’, ‘SOLID’, ‘SMOOTH’, ‘POTATO’, ‘ORTHO’, ‘LOCKVIEW_OFF’, ‘LOCKVIEW_ON’, ‘AXIS_SIDE’, ‘AXIS_FRONT’, ‘AXIS_TOP’, ‘NDOF_DOM’, ‘NDOF_TURN’, ‘NDOF_FLY’, ‘NDOF_TRANS’, ‘LAYER_USED’, ‘LAYER_ACTIVE’, ‘SORTALPHA’, ‘SORTBYEXT’, ‘SORTTIME’, ‘SORTSIZE’, ‘LONGDISPLAY’, ‘SHORTDISPLAY’, ‘GHOST’, ‘IMGDISPLAY’, ‘SAVE_AS’, ‘SAVE_COPY’, ‘BOOKMARKS’, ‘FONTPREVIEW’, ‘FILTER’, ‘NEWFOLDER’, ‘OPEN_RECENT’, ‘FILE_PARENT’, ‘FILE_REFRESH’, ‘FILE_FOLDER’, ‘FILE_BLANK’, ‘FILE_BLEND’, ‘FILE_IMAGE’, ‘FILE_MOVIE’, ‘FILE_SCRIPT’, ‘FILE_SOUND’, ‘FILE_FONT’, ‘FILE_TEXT’, ‘RECOVER_AUTO’, ‘SAVE_PREFS’, ‘LINK_BLEND’, ‘APPEND_BLEND’, ‘IMPORT’, ‘EXPORT’, ‘EXTERNAL_DATA’, ‘LOAD_FACTORY’, ‘LOOP_BACK’, ‘LOOP_FORWARDS’, ‘BACK’, ‘FORWARD’, ‘FILE_HIDDEN’, ‘FILE_BACKUP’, ‘DISK_DRIVE’, ‘MATPLANE’, ‘MATSPHERE’, ‘MATCUBE’, ‘MONKEY’, ‘HAIR’, ‘ALIASED’, ‘ANTIALIASED’, ‘MAT_SPHERE_SKY’, ‘WORDWRAP_OFF’, ‘WORDWRAP_ON’, ‘SYNTAX_OFF’, ‘SYNTAX_ON’, ‘LINENUMBERS_OFF’, ‘LINENUMBERS_ON’, ‘SCRIPTPLUGINS’, ‘SEQ_SEQUENCER’, ‘SEQ_PREVIEW’, ‘SEQ_LUMA_WAVEFORM’, ‘SEQ_CHROMA_SCOPE’, ‘SEQ_HISTOGRAM’, ‘SEQ_SPLITVIEW’, ‘IMAGE_RGB’, ‘IMAGE_RGB_ALPHA’, ‘IMAGE_ALPHA’, ‘IMAGE_ZDEPTH’, ‘IMAGEFILE’, ‘BRUSH_ADD’, ‘BRUSH_BLOB’, ‘BRUSH_BLUR’, ‘BRUSH_CLAY’, ‘BRUSH_CLAY_STRIPS’, ‘BRUSH_CLONE’, ‘BRUSH_CREASE’, ‘BRUSH_DARKEN’, ‘BRUSH_FILL’, ‘BRUSH_FLATTEN’, ‘BRUSH_GRAB’, ‘BRUSH_INFLATE’, ‘BRUSH_LAYER’, ‘BRUSH_LIGHTEN’, ‘BRUSH_MASK’, ‘BRUSH_MIX’, ‘BRUSH_MULTIPLY’, ‘BRUSH_NUDGE’, ‘BRUSH_PINCH’, ‘BRUSH_SCRAPE’, ‘BRUSH_SCULPT_DRAW’, ‘BRUSH_SMEAR’, ‘BRUSH_SMOOTH’, ‘BRUSH_SNAKE_HOOK’, ‘BRUSH_SOFTEN’, ‘BRUSH_SUBTRACT’, ‘BRUSH_TEXDRAW’, ‘BRUSH_TEXFILL’, ‘BRUSH_TEXMASK’, ‘BRUSH_THUMB’, ‘BRUSH_ROTATE’, ‘BRUSH_VERTEXDRAW’, ‘MATCAP_01’, ‘MATCAP_02’, ‘MATCAP_03’, ‘MATCAP_04’, ‘MATCAP_05’, ‘MATCAP_06’, ‘MATCAP_07’, ‘MATCAP_08’, ‘MATCAP_09’, ‘MATCAP_10’, ‘MATCAP_11’, ‘MATCAP_12’, ‘MATCAP_13’, ‘MATCAP_14’, ‘MATCAP_15’, ‘MATCAP_16’, ‘MATCAP_17’, ‘MATCAP_18’, ‘MATCAP_19’, ‘MATCAP_20’, ‘MATCAP_21’, ‘MATCAP_22’, ‘MATCAP_23’, ‘MATCAP_24’, ‘VIEW3D_VEC’, ‘EDIT_VEC’, ‘EDITMODE_VEC_DEHLT’, ‘EDITMODE_VEC_HLT’, ‘DISCLOSURE_TRI_RIGHT_VEC’, ‘DISCLOSURE_TRI_DOWN_VEC’, ‘MOVE_UP_VEC’, ‘MOVE_DOWN_VEC’, ‘X_VEC’, ‘SMALL_TRI_RIGHT_VEC’, ‘KEYTYPE_KEYFRAME_VEC’, ‘KEYTYPE_BREAKDOWN_VEC’, ‘KEYTYPE_EXTREME_VEC’, ‘KEYTYPE_JITTER_VEC’], default ‘NONE’, (readonly)
identifier

Unique name used in the code and scripting

Type:string, default “”, (readonly, never None)
is_animatable

Property is animatable through RNA

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_argument_optional

True when the property is optional in a Python function implementing an RNA function

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_enum_flag

True when multiple enums

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_hidden

True when the property is hidden

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_library_editable

Property is editable from linked instances (changes not saved)

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_never_none

True when this value can’t be set to None

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_output

True when this property is an output value from an RNA function

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_readonly

Property is editable through RNA

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_registered

Property is registered as part of type registration

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_registered_optional

Property is optionally registered as part of type registration

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_required

False when this property is an optional argument in an RNA function

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_runtime

Property has been dynamically created at runtime

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
is_skip_save

True when the property is not saved in presets

Type:boolean, default False, (readonly)
name

Human readable name

Type:string, default “”, (readonly, never None)
srna

Struct definition used for properties assigned to this item

Type:Struct, (readonly)
subtype

Semantic interpretation of the property

Type:enum in [‘NONE’, ‘FILE_PATH’, ‘DIR_PATH’, ‘PIXEL’, ‘UNSIGNED’, ‘PERCENTAGE’, ‘FACTOR’, ‘ANGLE’, ‘TIME’, ‘DISTANCE’, ‘COLOR’, ‘TRANSLATION’, ‘DIRECTION’, ‘MATRIX’, ‘EULER’, ‘QUATERNION’, ‘XYZ’, ‘COLOR_GAMMA’, ‘COORDINATES’, ‘LAYER’, ‘LAYER_MEMBERSHIP’], default ‘NONE’, (readonly)
translation_context

Translation context of the property’s name

Type:string, default “”, (readonly, never None)
type

Data type of the property

Type:enum in [‘BOOLEAN’, ‘INT’, ‘FLOAT’, ‘STRING’, ‘ENUM’, ‘POINTER’, ‘COLLECTION’], default ‘BOOLEAN’, (readonly)
unit

Type of units for this property

Type:enum in [‘NONE’, ‘LENGTH’, ‘AREA’, ‘VOLUME’, ‘ROTATION’, ‘TIME’, ‘VELOCITY’, ‘ACCELERATION’, ‘CAMERA’], default ‘NONE’, (readonly)

Inherited Properties

Inherited Functions

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