Blender Node Shortcuts

[@Erindale]

Not everyone loves shortcuts but they should. You should.

[@MrPETERDESIGN]

I just realised you're basically the blender version of Bob Ross. I wondered why I liked your content so much :)

[@Erindale]

Haha thank you so much!

[@Just3DThings]

Thumbnails are getting better and better

[@eli19961996]

man no capacity to do blender lately, but your thumbnails really drew me in. not sure, if you're making these yourself, but they're really pure art. maybe gimp, ps and ms paint is all we need to express ourselves after all.

[@Erindale]

Yes! Just playing with some collage is such a nice way to make things without all the pressure of making things!

[@UltraLightDashFlawless]

Thanks A Lot Bro 😉 ❤

[@imperfectstillworthit]

Wow, you don't only explain the hotkeys, you even made a nice pdf! Thx a lot!

[@zbop220]

The Node Minimap is also a great addon and well worth the $20. A minimap should really be a standard feature, not just in Blender but any node editor.

[@Erindale]

Agreed! I love it but when node trees get over a couple thousand nodes it does noticably impact performance. A shame because that's when it becomes super useful as well...

[@discreet_boson]

Your thumbnail game is on point

[@Erindale]

Lol thanks 😂

[@MarkBTomlinson]

Very helpful video, even after years of Blender shortcutting I picked a good number of new ones. Thanks Erin!

[@JavierSam_Uy]

Thank you. Have a nice 2022

[@pomolik2054]

You are the best, you helped me a lot, the only normal guide!!!!!!!

[@IWDSoon]

I like the thumbnail!!! Thanks for the vid!

[@Erindale]

Thank you!

[@mixikpixi6123]

Thanks, i just watched a second of this video and got what i needed.

[@Erindale]

Happy to help 😁

[@robinsquares]

I also set Ctrl+Shift+A as a shortcut to search the add menu

[@GaryParris]

Extremely good! i knew some but not all of these! well done, takes a while to remember them :)

[@Erindale]

Once they're in your muscle memory, you've got them for life!

[@ArnabDas_01]

If erindale doesn't heart this video then that means he reads every comment

[@D_The_Crafter]

This is extremely useful to know. Thank you.

[@chanahasnomana]

this is really helpful. thanks!

[@timfitzgibbon9104]

So good! Cheers!

[@muscle__rr]

HAPPY NEW YEAR ! :)

[@ebot1635]

happy new year :)

[@HitsandHeadlines]

16:08 for some reason when i try to control shift right click to mix nodes, nothing happens. no green animation either

[@zboy303]

Great stuff, thanks!

[@rsher_digital-art]

Thank you for this....Now I only ,only, only wish the Blender manual rewritten.

[@Erindale]

I've always felt that the manual is really written for the developers rather than users. It would be such a mammoth task to redo it now

[@BlenderBob]

Thank you so much Erin! Is there a way to mute a connection? Let's say I have many things connected to a join geometry node. Sometimes hard to unplug the right one, and if it's long distance, I don't have a hard time to plug it again. So muting a connection would be great, if it already exists.

[@ebot1635]

do you mean like pressing 'm'? I think its only with node wrangler, not sure tho. but if that's what you mean then 'm' is the key :)

[@Erindale]

Ctrl+alt+right click drag will mute noodles

[@BlenderBob]

@@Erindale Hummm... doesn't work for me.... I probably screwed up something in my pref. I also have this issue where I need to first clic on a node and click again to move it. I know that this is not the behaviour of the default prefs.

[@BlenderBob]

@@ebot1635 I want to mute the noodle, not the node :-)

[@Erindale]

@@BlenderBob If you add a "config" folder into your installation directory inside the 3.0 folder, Blender should launch as if a completely fresh install. Might be a good way to just check if things are bugged or it's a preferences thing.

[@Alumx]

you won, I joined straight noodle gang its actually better for big node trees 😔🤘

[@mind_of_a_darkhorse]

Great video, very helpful!

[@SetMeFree]

Thanks.

[@eli19961996]

Hey, just in case you need another idea for a video: I would be very interested in Scripting and how the data structure of Blender looks in general. I've been skirting the subject since I started doing Blender, but I ever so often get annoyed by the limitations of the provided tools, especially with the node systems (even though they're great and more creative minds could find a solution with the tools provided). I can code a little and I feel it couldn't be that hard with the well defined Data the node systems are using and I encountered many voices talking about how easy implementing code with Blender is. There's a lot of great documentation out there and I tried looking into it for a bit, but it seems there is not a lot of stuff that is very specific. I'll keep trying to make sense of what's there, but if you know a little about that subject, I'd be delighted about a video on that subject. The integrated scripting node doesn't have GPU support.

[@Erindale]

I unfortunately know nothing about scripting but I can definitely do a video on data structure. That would probably help a lot of people as it's very central to all Blender use!

[@ArnabDas_01]

new new new year hope its not worse than 2020

[@maayaa77]

opposite of view output - ctrl shift click to view then how do you go back to join geometry instead of going all the way over and doing it over an over.

[@Erindale]

Join should be ctrl shift right click drag across the two nodes you want to join

[@yosrisemk]

@Erindale Thanks for the clear explanation. Which software do you use to display keystrokes and mouse clicks?

[@Erindale]

Screencast keys

[@BlendingEdge]

SHIFT + ALT + LMB does not work on a PowerBook laptop with a trackpad. (with or without the trackpad / middle button emulated on). I think you may need a mouse for this shortcut to work.

[@Erindale]

Oh yeah, emulate 3 button mouse will take away ALT

[@muhammadzazulirizki1000]

Hi, for some reasons "Alt+Shift+Left Click" shortcut doesn't work for me. Is it a bug or the shortcut has changed now in the latest version of blender?

[@Erindale]

Make sure you have the node wrangler on. It's definitely still the same shortcut unless you've changed it or an add-on has overwritten it

[@muhammadzazulirizki1000]

@@Erindale it is activated. The other shortcuts for node wrangler work fine. Only this specific one. Maybe it's conflicting with the other shortcut?

[@muhammadzazulirizki1000]

Update : I replaced the "Left Click" with "Middle Mouse click" and now it works. Maybe it is conflicting with the other shortcuts. Didn't change anything tho

[@muhammadzazulirizki1000]

Hi. I finally found the source of the problem. I activated the "Emulate 3 button Mouse" because I am a laptop user and used touchpad to navigate. But apparently it changes the function of the "alt" button, that's why some shortcuts didn't work. I post this comment just in case other people having the same issue. Thanks for the video btw, bro! Really helpful!

[@onetess6746]

15:27 HOW do you enable this adding new node simply by dragging socket? Trying to figure this out for a real long time now

[@Erindale]

You need to be using 3.2 or above. Maybe even 3.3 🤔

[@onetess6746]

@@Erindale Thank you sooo much! Already subbed, quality content for sure

[@gergelypifko2123]

Hey, Could you tell me how big were the geometry node changes from 2.93 to 3.0-3.1? Im mainly asking this, becouse I have just bought your 2.93 geo course, Im curious how many stuff has changed since.

[@Erindale]

A bunch of node names are different like "Point Distribute" is now "Distribute on Faces" and the way we had to write attribute names on every 👏 single 👏 node 👏 has now been replaced with actually connecting nodes with noodles like we do in shaders. It's much better. If you're looking for a node that was eg "Attribute Map Range" now you're just looking for "Map Range". Just cut the Attribute part off and you should find more or less what you're after. The final video in the course is me going through the whole scene with Blender 3.0 (just before it was released) so you can see there how the process compares!

[@gergelypifko2123]

@@Erindale Thanks for the quick reply I didn't get to the final video yet, but hopefully I will finish your course today, it's definetly the best on the subject, and it's also super cheap, keep up the good work :)

[@M4rt1nX]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 That thumbnail 😂😂😂

[@khalatelomara]

o ... ok *Crying in industry standard keymaps*

[@Erindale]

Ah you might have to go in and change up some shortcuts in the keymap 😅

[@khalatelomara]

@@Erindale *INDUSTRY STANDARD SCREAMING*

[@aubreytr945]

they got rid of shift + S for switching nodes for 4.2 apparently. Do you know what's the new shortcut key?

[@Erindale]

The function hasn’t been implemented again yet afaik

[@aubreytr945]

@@Erindale oh alright... thanks for the reply!

[@neko_daisuki_frisbee]

I'm trying to trigger 'View Output' using shift + alt + lmb, but it defaults to 'Pan View' instead. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

[@Erindale]

Do you have Emulate 3 Button Mouse in the preferences? That will hijack alt+lmb as middle click

[@neko_daisuki_frisbee]

@@Erindale Wow! Your answer was exactly what I needed! Thank you so much! I was stuck at the beginning, but now I can continue and enjoy the rest of your lecture from the 10 second mark onwards :)

[@andrewchew9199]

Is there a way to get my object's position relative to the camera's view or window in shading?

[@Erindale]

Yeah you can generate window coordinates. The way I do it in my Toolkit add-on is by positioning radial gradients at the camera position and using map range nodes to get a 0..1 range corrected for the aspect ratio

[@andrewchew9199]

Well I'll try to understand that the best I can, I ain't that well with math and stuff just yet

[@Erindale]

Use the radial gradient node and take the position input node subtract the location of the camera as the vector. You want to use a Vector rotate from the camera rotation too to align it. That should get you started

[@ciliaana3389]

CTRL + ALT + C / V doesn't work for me :/ Edit: Nevermind. I realize it only work in geo nodes, which is a bit sad tbh.

[@Erindale]

It works across blender but it needs to be the same vector type. If there are different units it breaks for some reason 😩

[@ciliaana3389]

@@Erindale I tried in Shader node, used two vector math and tried to copy one to each other. Didn't work. Only worked in Geo nodes :/

[@maayaa77]

separating curves ? how ?

[@Erindale]

Geo node's lack of nested data makes it pretty hard to manipulate data in a meaningful way sometimes

[@maayaa77]

@@Erindale thanks, for sure - Houdini keeps the data raw and usually whatever is incoming data can be wiped out or favoured.

[@Erindale]

Yeah Sverchok is all nested so things don't join until you tell them to. Geo nodes has a little way to go still.

[@nealgrieb6660]

Ok, what if I'm a heathen that still uses 2.7X shortcuts and the wrong mouse button?

[@Erindale]

Heathen being the operative word 😅

[@seancrawford6917]

Why he sound like Bob Ross though?

[@Erindale]

Just a happy little accident

[@luisfernandocastroalfaro1604]

No quiero que me vuelvas a mandar tu video nunca

[@Erindale]

But you came here yourself 😭

[@luisfernandocastroalfaro1604]

No