[Bf-vfx] Some suggestions for the node tree in general

[Francesco Paglia]

Hi all,

in a compositing nodetree is quite usual the ability to link properties of
differents nodes.
To figure out some quick example think about having few layers that fade
driven by a "master fader node" or having some transformation nodes that
are the same of another transform node but just with a slight frames offset.

I don't have to say that this "linkage" is a great speed up in the workflow
as well as a powerful testing system of many artistic solutions.
I'm almost sure that this kind of "linkage" are possible in the nodetree
editor via driver but I'm still trying to find how.
Yesterday I spent a huge amount of time trying to reach a property via the
default driver panel but in no way I could get any data so I tried to get
it via python.
At the end I've been able to read the value in the console but once I tried
to reuse that path in the driver editor it simply didn't work nor gave me
error, just returned 0. I still try to understand where is my fault

I told you my story just to let you figure out how hard (and in my case
impossible) is achieve a task that should be as natural as adding few
keyframes, so here I comes to ask for a better workflow and possibly an
easy and intuitive way to add and edit these "link"

Thanks for your attention.
Francesco


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Francesco Paglia
Vfx and Production Supervisor
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