True -a combination of turning off AutoColor & a selective UI palette can
achieve the same thing. An easy way to examine a script's flow

On 5 October 2012 15:18, Nathan Rusch <[email protected]> wrote:

>   Personally I’m heavily against pipe coloring in my own environment.
> Even when untangling someone else’s mess, I find it easier to just use
> Nuke’s highlighting of the parent hierarchy of the current selection than
> having to visually process a mass of neon spaghetti. I think some of the
> same logic from this article (
> http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/index.php) is
> directly applicable to overly colorful trees, though I don’t necessarily
> agree with all the points he makes.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
>  *From:* Marten Blumen <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 04, 2012 1:52 PM
> *To:* Nuke user discussion <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [Nuke-users] Nuke Script Layout, was new comp stack node
> survey
>
> Anyone have thoughts on coloured lines in the Node Graph   Just like
> coloured Nodes, would colouring lines help reading the flow. i.e like the
> London Tube map. I'm experimenting with turning off Node Colors/AutoColor
> and manual colouring important nodes.  Would it help to be able to do that
> to lines?
>
> Famous Tube map redesign; maybe some ideas in this
> http://www.design-technology.info/alevelsubsite/page5.htm
>
> On 4 October 2012 20:39, Howard Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Might pinch that, however the label I use may be main mattes, rather
>> than the last node name.
>>
>> And of course they can have multi channels in them.
>>
>> I just found when you have pipes running several 'pages' worth, it saves
>> all that scrolling up and down. But requires a bit of copy and paste.
>> Obviously there are tools to modify multiple nodes at once on nukepedia.
>>
>> Maybe the python could be modified to take one master dot at the top and
>> copy its label? Hmmmm.
>>
>> Howard
>>
>> On 4 Oct 2012, at 03:22, Frank Rueter <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  bugger tcl.
>>
>> def getParentNode(node):
>>
>> parentNode = node.input(0)
>>
>> if parentNode.Class() == 'Dot':
>>
>> return getParentNode(parentNode)
>>
>> else:
>>
>> return parentNode.name()
>>
>>
>> nuke.knobDefault('Dot.label', "[python
>> getParentNode(nuke.toNode('Dot1'))]")
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/4/12 1:46 PM, chris wrote:
>>
>> On 10/3/12 at 12:57 AM,  (Howard Jones) wrote:
>>
>> my favorite - label the dots. And have one just before inputs so you can
>> easily see where each input came from.
>>
>>
>> i like that one a lot! just added this to my menu.py
>>
>> nuke.knobDefault('Dot.label', ' [value input0.name]')
>>
>> might be worth thinking about how to get the name of the next non-dot
>> node when traveling up the tree (in case one uses several dots in a row to
>> direct the flow), but no idea how to do that through TCL.
>>
>> ++ chris
>>
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