Sure in a basic take a blurry mask and multiply it against an image, there is not really efficiency to be gained, I was thinking on a more generic sense of some node groups may benefit from compiler level optimization.
I think your breakdown of a possible vignette node to end all vignette nodes, sounds great. Would we say then "Ok end users, instead of providing you with a vignette node, we provided you with a dozen basic nodes that you will have to build your own with, good luck!"? or would we provide them with both? I know the procedure of linking in libraries has already been floated in this discussion, but the workflow is dodgy. You either have to break your workflow to go find and append the node you want, or dump them all into your default blend where they show up in one popup menu under add->group. I would see a 2 part solution: Part 1) Better organizational abilities for node groups so that they feel more like regular nodes. Like an option of which "Node Add Menu" submenu to put them in rather than straight into the group category. Part 2) A set of common functions (like vignette) shipped with blender even if they are just node groups that are put in a different submenu. Thoughts? On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:12 AM Johnny Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh you burned me so bad there. > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015, 7:47 AM Troy Sobotka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Multiplication isn't exactly complex. >> >> With respect, >> TJS >> >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015, 5:25 AM Johnny Matthews <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > True, but is it out of the question that some of the node groups could >> have >> > efficiencies added by coding them more atomically? >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 7:07 AM Kévin Dietrich < >> [email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > Le 2015-03-05 14:00, Johnny Matthews a écrit : >> > > >> > > > David, I'm not sure your tone here is helpful. >> > > > >> > > > Also to take a stab at "where would the devs stop?" Take a look at >> > > > http://www.redgiant.com/products/magic-bullet-looks/ [1] >> > > >> > > That would be the equivalent to having a node groups library, which a >> > > vignette effect can be part of. This is something that a lot of users >> > > have been doing for a long time. >> > > >> > > >> > > Links: >> > > ------ >> > > [1] http://www.redgiant.com/products/magic-bullet-looks/ >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > 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 >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
