Artist Tips

Edit Source & Edit Tweaks

When browsing a scene, it can be tricky to find and edit the node that generated or tweaked an object, especially if your graph is large, has many Box nodes, or depends on

Connect to Next

When constructing networks that use the Loop node, you'll often find yourself adding Dot nodes to connect the previous plug to the returning next plug, in order to give the connection

Numeric bookmarks

A numeric bookmark is a node bookmark associated with a number key (1 through 9) on the keyboard. Once assigned, hitting the key of a numeric bookmark will pin the currently focused editor

Attribute history

Today's tip will be a bit longer than usual. We'll be taking a dive into a very powerful built-in feature of Gaffer: the attribute history. Let's say

Creating the same node again

You will sometimes find yourself having to add several new nodes of the same type to the graph. You could create a node and copy-paste it, but there's an even faster