[Bf-compositor] [enh] labels and reorder inputs to help link nodes

[Greg Zaal]

Hey Francesco,

Looks like it could be useful. Don't know if you've seen it or not, but a
month or two ago I added a feature to Bartek's Node Efficiency Tools addon
(now called Node Wrangler, and is included in trunk) where you may
Ctrl+Click and drag to connect two nodes without caring about being
accurate. A gif explains it best:
http://wiki.blender.org/uploads/3/38/Nw_lazy_connect.gif

It uses the nearest node to the start/end point of the drawn line and tries
to figure out what you want to connect (based on socket name, type or
unconnected).

This could be expanded with the menu you suggest allowing you to choose
exactly what sockets to connect, while still remaining lazy and zoomed out.
Does that sound like what you want?

Cheers,
Greg


On 6 February 2014 14:12, Francesco Paglia <f.paglia.80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> link nodes is quite an hard task now, especially if we have too many nodes
> that requires to zoom out a bit and if we decide to use collapsed node to
> maintain the tree more clean.
>
> I'd like to propose to add a sort of labeling solution so once we have to
> plug in a noddle we just drag it on the node (without caring on the right
> position)  and an easy to read panel can appear with the list of all the
> available input so we can choose which one we need.
>
> I made just a quick mockup to shot my idea, hope you will find it
> interesting to discuss since in my opinion this solution can incredibly
> speed up the workflow without having to zoom in and out every few seconds.
>
> Here the sample:
>
>
> https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-maT-WogxB40/UvN0LVE5eRI/AAAAAAAAIAA/z3E51gAxRFc/w1150-h874-no/LABELING.png
>
> always going on the same path would be very efficient to have in the side
> panel the complete list of the inputs that can be resorted easily...
> Imagine this:
>
> I drag a node in an input of a   "RGB curves" node,
> I make an error and instead of plugging the noddle to the "image" input I
> put it in the "black level"
> it would be a very great addition the ability to simply drag in the
> "inputs panel" the linked value to the desired input...
>
> Here a quick visual mockup
>
>
> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0uWo0AFcuag/UvN7ri2wb3I/AAAAAAAAIA4/SPlyYSkeuFA/w1292-h594-no/resort_inputs.png
>
> Thanks
> Francesco
>
>
> --
> Francesco Paglia
> Vfx and Production Supervisor
>
>
>
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