As part of the ongoing work on the particles-2010 branch i decided to address some of the nagging issues of group nodes. While nice in theory, the usability of node groups suffers from bad behavior and missing features to reveal its true power. Three things in particular i would like to fix:
* External sockets should be renameable to give some meaning to the parameters and outputs of a complex group. * The order of external socket should be changeable (e.g. to stress different importance of sockets). * The internal sockets that get an external counterpart should be selectable explicitly, instead of having to use ugly workarounds to hide some of them. The first of these has now been implemented as a patch for trunk (which i will port to the particles branch too of course). It seems to work very well, but since i had to change some of the inner workings of group nodes, it could use some more testers. See the patch description for details. https://projects.blender.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=24883&group_id=9&atid=127 There are certainly more features that would be nice to have for nodes (nested groups, more ui improvements), but these three can be implemented quickly. Cheers, Lukas Tönne _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers