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Enhance nodes interaction in zoomed out context

Issue

Quick node connections while zoomed out in node editors are difficult to make in a precise way. So a lot of interaction is wasted re-framing the view.

Ideas for improvement

  1. An absolute sized text label, displayed while a connection is in progress. This could be optional and showed only below a zoom threshold.
  • can be in a fixed position aligned with the node slot or linked to the mouse cursor position
  • if linked to cursor, the label shoud swap when the hotspot of the In slot is touched as in the second pic

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  1. A magnifier zone folowing the cursor, much like the minimap view proposed here projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/86723

  2. A temporary zoom tho mouse position while a key combo is kept pressed. Inverse birds eye feature in PS youtu.be/x3gUUiOJDL8

As a note, none of this is original and some have been even developed and presented before but for some reason abandoned.

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bestelix
11 Nov 2023

2 Comments

v.imran2018

You just fit very powerful addon for working with nodes VoronoiLinker, in it in addition to visualization of the socket, also implemented a lot of convenient functions youtube.com/watch

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Blen_Dave

Excellent idea. I find these connections a challenge when zoomed out, building a complex node setup.
It is in the same spirit of my "Node Wrangler - Connect to Final Material Output" two suggestions down in this forum: Make node editing more efficient!

blender.community/c/rightclickselect/q2VD/