G4P - part 5 - File Browser Bookmarks
In this instalment of the Gaffer for Pipeline series of 'ground up' posts, we look at adding custom bookmarks to the various Gaffer browsers. We'll recap the tutorial from
Customising the NameSwitch node UI
Gaffer 0.55.0.0 introduces the NameSwitch node; like a Switch node, but using names instead of indices for switching between the inputs. This post shows an example of the NameSwitch in
Gaffer for pipeline - part 4 - which version?
When writing pipeline tools, it's often useful to know which Gaffer version you are running in. In python, the Gaffer.About module is your friend:
import Gaffer
print( Gaffer.About.versionString(
Scripting Box nodes
Gaffer's Box node is a staple building block sharing chunks of node graph (via the Reference system), or quickly building tools via expressions and promoted plugs.
The Gaffer docs have a
Gaffer for pipeline - part 3 - Compute cache size
Like many other applications that calculate data on-demand, Gaffer has a memory cache that can increase performance in UI sessions if you have RAM to spare.
The default size (1GB) is somewhat conservative