Hey Lukas, Thank you for your reply and for bringing back individual sockets selection. I missed it because now you select socket by left clicking. I was trying to select them by right clicking (as it was in 2.49) and when it failed I was sure we still don't have this option available. This feature is a real time saver. I'm really glad you are thinking about improving it. I'm sure you'll come up with the best possible solution.
Auto hide sockets: As I can see from your post you are all the time thinking about automatic behavior. If I may suggest something - I'd rather leave more options to the user. As I suggested in my previous message: If most of the users love auto hide feature (I still don't understand why, but let it be) - why don't we leave this behavior, but let the user unhide sockets of collapsed node with Ctl-H? Most of the users would simply hide the nodes without doing anything else afterwards and I would hit H, Ctl-H to have the nodes the way I like them. Bartek Skorupa www.bartekskorupa.com On 2012-04-09, at 08:24, Lukas Tönne wrote: > I agree that automatic socket hiding is a bit annoying atm. Several > possible solutions (or a combination of these) come to mind: > a) Only auto-hide sockets in long lists (e.g. geometry node, render > layers) > b) For nodes with only 2 or 3 sockets, don't hide them all, or only > hide if at least one of them is connected. > > Actually socket selection + connect with fkey was reimplemented a > while back. It could be improved in a few places though: > > * The autoconnect (fkey) operator still basically works on x-axis > ordering, connects nodes on the left side to nodes further right. > That's a prerequisite for the previous default behaviour (first > chooses two nodes to connect, then tries to find suitable matching > sockets). When having single sockets selected this is usually not > necessary and prevents some useful linking from nodes further to the > right. > > * Linking by click+drag currently also selects sockets. Even though > sockets are deselected after linking, the nodes still stay selected, > so this messes with the users previous selection. Linking and then > directly moving nodes afterward often has unexpected result. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
