Would be great if we have a "is viewport" node with switch in the compositor
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Michael-Knaap
30 Sep 2025
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Enord
If you don't mind the clutter of duplicating your tree, you could have one setup plugged into a viewer node and another into the output node. However, this would be inconvenient because any time you want to change a setting in one node, you would have to change it also in another node.
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Michael-KnaapAuthor
super inconvenient hahah
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Futuray
I don't understand what it will do, and what it could be used for...
Could you explain more ?
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Michael-KnaapAuthor
Real time compositor doesn't support all nodes nor do you sometimes want it to show all nodes in real time.
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Futuray
I still don't understand what it will do. 😅
I understand it could be useful on geometry nodes, but not in compositor...
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Michael-KnaapAuthor
No since there are certain actions you can't do in real time like having 2 seperate layers mixed together! I'm currently using it for shadow catchers etc
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If you don't mind the clutter of duplicating your tree, you could have one setup plugged into a viewer node and another into the output node. However, this would be inconvenient because any time you want to change a setting in one node, you would have to change it also in another node.
super inconvenient hahah
I don't understand what it will do, and what it could be used for... Could you explain more ?
Real time compositor doesn't support all nodes nor do you sometimes want it to show all nodes in real time.
I still don't understand what it will do. 😅 I understand it could be useful on geometry nodes, but not in compositor...
No since there are certain actions you can't do in real time like having 2 seperate layers mixed together! I'm currently using it for shadow catchers etc