OTOY Forums

Hi there,

is it possible to solo a node? For example solo the bump image?

Hi, not possible yet. Maybe possible in future releases but this would need to be confirmed by the plugin developers.

oblivion wrote:Hi there,

is it possible to solo a node? For example solo the bump image?

Is that possible in the "standard" Blender?

linograndiotoy wrote:

oblivion wrote:Hi there,

is it possible to solo a node? For example solo the bump image?

Is that possible in the "standard" Blender?

With Node wrangler it is possible. It is included in default Blender's build but not enabled by default.
https://gregzaal.github.io/node-wrangler/

Simply Ctrl+Shift+Click a node, and it is connected automatically to a viewer node (which is created if it doesn't exist).

I seriously doubt we can have a "Viewer" node working with Octane.

linograndiotoy wrote:I seriously doubt we can have a "Viewer" node working with Octane.

The only thing that does is to connect the clicked node to the Surface output (if it's a shader), or, temporarily, create a "viewer node" between the texture and the Shader output.
The "Viewer Node" is just an emission shader.

This should be doable within BO, just that there is no single Emission shader.

I usually do this manually, all the time, either connect a shader node directly to the output (and not via Mix shaders etc) or I have a loose Diffuse Material node that I connect a texture (or mix tex or w.e) to (the Diff input) and then to the shader output.
It really helps when your node tree gets more complex.

ChrisH wrote:I usually do this manually, all the time, either connect a shader node directly to the output (and not via Mix shaders etc) or I have a loose Diffuse Material node that I connect a texture (or mix tex or w.e) to (the Diff input) and then to the shader output.
It really helps when your node tree gets more complex.

I do the same all the times.

I was wondering the same. Is this possible by now?

It's not possible in Core, so it's depending on the dev willingness to find a workaround, in C4D the DiffuseFilter buffer is displayed when using the "Solo Node" created by aoktar, it has drawbacks (you can't see displacements in the solo node) as it is not the same as directly connecting the node you want to solo in a viewer node or output node. That's the main feature that makes me stay on C4D/Octane, shading is so easy when you can see what you are actually doing. It should be n°1 priority but for the core devs