Artist Tips

Drag and drop objects to assign shaders

Because Gaffer is a procedural system, modifications to objects are made by applying nodes to the scene, using filters to determine which objects within the scene are affected by a particular node. Commonly

Selecting upstream and downstream nodes

When reorganising a node network, you often want to move all the nodes upstream from a particular point in the graph. You can Shift+Alt-click to select all such nodes and drag them

Use autocomplete in path widgets

If you've spent much time in a UNIX shell, you probably already know and love tab completion, whereby hitting the tab key will autocomplete the current filename based on the first