Schematic View "Cleanup"

#1

I love that Layout has a Schematic view, but it seems like any time I use it for the first time in a scene, my nodes are a complete rat’s nest. Is there a “cleanup” button or something that will untangle them and make it look spiffy?

Thanks,
Dustin

#2

Zero replies. Was it really that stupid of a question?

#3

haha, no it wasn’t.

I wish that there was but I haven’t found one yet. The worst thing is when you have a character rig or a spinning light type setup and the nodes just go on and on and on and on…you end up zooming right out and then you can’t read the names. I think that the right-angle type of connection helps a bit but I haven’t used the schematic view for a while so I can’t remember.

I think that having more “clever” colouring would also help. Having Nulls the same colour as objects seems a little dumb to me and perhaps have the lights slightly different between types? eg. Spot’s are pale yellow, Area’s are deep yellow, Distant’s are Orange etc. Or perhaps be able to setup custom colours?

#4

There is a Schematic View Tool (native) if you haven’t tried that yet. It is abit finicky though (imho).

#5

It would be great if you could pick the shape as well. Say, circles for lights, nulls as squares, etc.

#6

If you right click in the schematic view window, you can select a color for already created selected items from a preset collection of 15 standard colors or create your own custom color. You’re probably interested in having those colors assigned to the various objects prior to their creation which this doesn’t provide of course.

I also wish that some more efficient method of managing the schematic view was provided.

#7

Fi’s SchematicTree can organize nodes. It’s part of FIsSklReader.p which you can get at FI’s Junkbox (if you can find it, the links seem to be dead). If you can’t find it just post a message on this thread and I can get it to you.

#8

I’d like to try it out. Can’t find a live link for it either. Thanks for the info!:slight_smile:

#9

Yeah I’d love to get that plug-in from you. Thanks!

  • Dustin
#10

You can find it here: http://www.lwplugindb.com/Plugin.aspx?id=f898ea3c

#11

Thank you for the link!:thumbsup:

Was there ever a 64bit version available for this one?

#12

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