[Bf-funboard] Node view tweaks request

[trip somewhere]

my main goal was just to speed up creation of nodes to examine the
output of the Render Layer node and the continual inspecting of the
Layer Node's data.

I do not know of this ctrl-click to link nodes. However I did just try
various ways to select the two nodes with ctrl-click to to effect.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:28 PM, bassam <bkurdali at freefactory.org> wrote:
> It needn't be an either/or. viewer nodes are valuable for persistent
> needed views that are especially important, but a temporary "view this"
> command/tool/hotkey/what have you would help in precisely the screenshot
> you posted; I doubt you would ever (well I wouldn't) want to keep so
> many viewer nodes around in a scene.
> you can in the meantime use the ctrl-click to attach a viewer to a node,
> but it does not afaik let you select which specific output.
>
> On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 16:39 -0500, trip somewhere wrote:
>> > The line gets fully highlighted when the nodes on both ends are
>> > selected. This is so you know what is selected. Maybe a different
>> > color from the black to have the gradient change into would be better
>> > instead.
>>
>> That  also highlights all of the other lines, which yeah works partway
>> but ikes it's yet another distraction, right now I don't see the point
>> of a mid way highlight from the viewer node otherwise.
>>
>> >I think a better solution would be to remove the need for viewer nodes by adding the possibility of selecting and viewing >output slots directly.
>>
>> True and that would be neat as well. But since this is blenders way
>> for now, I did not want to cross the "add a feature" line at this
>> moment. As well as the thumbnails do help as it stands. After they are
>> created that is.
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