[Bf-compositor] Drivers inside node groups

[Diego Gangl]

Thanks for the info. I was hoping to avoid scripting so it could be
reusable, but I'll figure out another way around it.

Looking foward to your work in the compositor btw!

2014-08-05 4:20 GMT-03:00 Lukas Tönne <lukas.toenne at gmail.com>:
> Drivers inside node groups are not supported atm unfortunately. This is a
> deeply rooted problem with the dependency graph, which cannot handle updates
> of anything other than object, scene, and armature datablocks reliably. Even
> drivers in the top-level, non-group node trees (the main compositor tree)
> only work because of hacks and only when the scene is active iirc.
>
> Sorry for the disappointment. We intend to fix the dependency graph asap,
> but it can still take a while. Until then you could possibly work around it
> with some explicit scripting and scene update handlers.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Diego Gangl <dnicolas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to drive a value in a node inside a group with a value from
>> another node from  the same group. I've tried adding the driver the
>> usual way (D key) and the outliner way, but neither is working.
>>
>> The value in the node doesn't update, and the variable in the drivers
>> editor stays at 0.000.
>>
>> Any ideas? Can this be done?
>>
>> Cheers,
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