grouping nodes

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on October 25, 2009 at 6:02pm

If by nodes you mean components, what you describe existed just a few versions ago. It was called "clusters". They were temporally removed as they are being rewritten to work more like instances (you create a cluster, copy it, change one of them and both get modified).

Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on October 25, 2009 at 6:25pm

I see

Here is a simple of how the group system works in Blender.

Pretty smart and well working.

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on October 25, 2009 at 6:50pm

Yes, something like that. Although I'm not sure how useful it is to have the components actually seen inside a big rectangle. I guess that's the expanded mode, but you can reduce it to a small component?
I think the new clusters will look as a normal component, you double click it and a new canvas will open with the cluster's definition.

Permalink Reply by Claas Eicke Kuhnen on October 25, 2009 at 8:34pm

it is actually quite good because when you collapse it you see a square with all input and output channels. those are adjusted depending on all the in and outputs of the nodes inside the group.

this way you save complicated scrolling or switching to different canvases / layers.