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  • Published 17 Sep 2026

Named Reroute or Portal Nodes for Blender

In Unreal we have a node called Named Reroute node which is helpful in connecting nodes together wirelessly resulting in a cleaner node graph.

I looked around and found this ( devtalk.blender.org/t/portal-links-exploration/21306 ) looks like blender dev were working on it but stopped for some reason if any dev here knows why please reply.

If anyone here does not know what I am talking about here is a youtube video showing how it works in unreal- youtube.com/shorts/-teFisaXBRY

Here is an image example for Blender from devtalk- 32829fe66b4e841ba69dd30e62c6ea67cc83367e.png

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UDAY
17 Sep 2026

2 Comments

wadewtaylor

Please for the love of god. I have no idea why this hasn't been done yet.

Efe-Kekikciler

Yes, portals like Substance Designer or Unreal Engine in Blender would immensely help making cleaner and more organized node trees.