Editing Nodes

Transform

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Move, Rotate, Resize

Bližnjica:

G, R, S

You can move the selected node(s) by clicking and dragging any empty part of them. Alternatively, press G, move the mouse, and click LMB to confirm.

Dragging a node on top of an existing link will intelligently insert the selected node into the link path. This generally uses the first socket that matches the link type. The automatic node attachment feature can be toggled with Alt. When a node is automatically attached, the surrounding nodes will be offset to the right or left depending on the T toggle; see Auto-Offset for more information.

While dragging nodes, you can press F to toggle their parent Frame:

• If the nodes are inside a frame, they will be detached from it.

• If the nodes are not inside a frame and there is a frame under the cursor, they will be attached to that frame.

In general, it is recommended to arrange your nodes so that data flows from left to right, top to bottom.

The width of a node can be changed by dragging its left or right border.

Rotating (R) and scaling (S) only apply when multiple nodes are selected, and only affect their positions.

Connecting Sockets

LMB-click on a socket and drag. „Connect to Output“ will see a line coming out of it; this is called a link. Keep dragging and connect the link to an input socket of another node, then release the LMB.

While multiple links can route out of an output socket, typically a single link can be attached to an input socket, that is unless the input is a multi-socket input with looks like a pill shaped socket.

To swap multiple links of a similar type, press and hold Alt while moving a link. This feature also works when adding a new link into a pre-existing socket.

To reposition the outgoing links of a node, rather than adding a new one, hold Ctrl while dragging from an output socket. This works for single as well as for multiple outgoing links.

Nodes that have no connections can be inserted on a link by just move the node over the link and release when the link is highlighted.

Make Links J

Select multiple nodes with open sockets, then use the Make Links to create links between them. Use Make Links again if there are other nodes which can be connected.

Make and Replace Links Shift-J

Make and Replace Links works similarly to Make Links, but it will replace existing links if any exist.

Disconnecting Sockets

Interactively

Drag the link away from its input socket and let it go, keeping it unconnected.

Mute Links

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Mute Links

Bližnjica:

Ctrl-Alt-RMB

Activate the menu item or hold the key combination, then draw a line across one or more links to mute/unmute them. A muted link acts as though it’s no longer there; this also means the input fields for specifying fixed values become visible again.

When muting links on the input side of a reroute node, the links on its output side will be muted too.

Cut Links

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Cut Links

Bližnjica:

Ctrl-RMB

Activate the menu item or hold the key combination, then draw a line across one or more links to delete them.

Opomba

The key combination is normally reserved for Lasso Select. In node editors, lasso selection is instead performed with Ctrl-Alt-LMB.

Detach Links Alt-LMB drag

Use Detach Links to cut all the links attached to the selected nodes and move the nodes to a new location.

Cut/Copy/Paste

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Cut, Node ‣ Copy, Node ‣ Paste

Bližnjica:

Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V

These operators allow transferring nodes within a node tree, between different node trees, or even between Blender instances.

Cut

Removes the selected nodes and places them on the clipboard. When possible, links are automatically reconnected to preserve the node flow.

Copy Ctrl-C

Copies the selected nodes to the clipboard, including the connections between them.

Paste Ctrl-V

Inserts the nodes from the clipboard into the node tree.

Opomba

Pasted nodes are placed at the same coordinates as when they were copied. The same considerations as duplicating nodes apply.

Nasvet

Nodes can be copied and pasted between Blender instances. This also works across different node editors, provided the node types are supported by the destination editor.

Duplicate

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Duplicate

Bližnjica:

Shift-D

Select one or more nodes, activate the menu item or press the key combination, then move the mouse to a new location and click LMB (or press Return) to place the duplicated node(s).

Opomba

When you duplicate a node, the new node will be positioned exactly on top of the node that was duplicated. If you leave it there (and it is quite easy to do so), you can not easily tell that there are two nodes there! When in doubt, select a node and move it slightly to see if something is hidden underneath.

Duplicate Linked

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Duplicate Linked

Bližnjica:

Alt-D

Duplicate selected nodes, but not their node trees (in the case of group nodes), and move them.

Delete

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Delete

Bližnjica:

X, Delete

Deletes the selected node(s).

Delete with Reconnect

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Delete

Bližnjica:

Ctrl-Delete

Deletes the selected node(s), then creates new links connecting their former input nodes to their former output nodes.

Swap

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Swap

Bližnjica:

Shift-S

The Swap operator replaces the selected node with another node type chosen from the menu.

All existing links are automatically reconnected where possible, matching input and output sockets by name and type. If a connection cannot be matched, it is left unconnected.

Show/Hide

Mute

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Show/Hide ‣ Mute

Bližnjica:

M

Muting a node removes its contribution to the node tree, and makes all links pass through it without change. Links will appear red as an indicator of passing through the muted node.

Nasvet

Individual node links can be muted with Mute Links.

Node Preview

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Show/Hide ‣ Node Preview

Bližnjica:

Shift-H

Shows/Hides a preview region on the node that displays the frame after that node’s operation has been applied. This can also be toggled by clicking the material ball icon in the node header.

Opomba

This operator are only available in the Compositor.

Node Options

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Show/Hide ‣ Node Options

Shows/Hides all node properties.

Unconnected Sockets

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Show/Hide ‣ Unconnected Sockets

Bližnjica:

Ctrl-H

Collapses/Expands any input or output sockets that have no other nodes connected to them.

Collapse

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Show/Hide ‣ Unconnected Sockets

Bližnjica:

H

Collapses the node so only the node header is visible. This can also be toggled by clicking the triangle on the left of the node header.

Collapse and Hide Unused Sockets

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Show/Hide ‣ Unconnected Sockets

Bližnjica:

H

Applies both the Unconnected Sockets and Collapse operations.

Read View Layers

Sklic

Meni:

Node ‣ Read View Layers

Bližnjica:

Ctrl-R

Reads all the current scene’s render layers from cache, as needed. This can be used to save RAM while rendering because the render layers do not have to be saved in RAM. And also for recovering some information from a failed render. For this to work, Cache Result must be enabled.

Opomba

This operator are only available in the Compositor.

Connect to Output

Sklic

Bližnjica:

Shift-Alt-LMB

Connect the output of the selected node to the final output of the node tree (Material Output or World Output in Shader, the final Group Output in Geometry Nodes and Compositor, Output in Texture Nodes), or, if the node is inside a group, to the Group Output.