(Solved) [Blender] Expose Material Input in Property View

bitinn

Another quick question on Blender: I have been searching for a way to expose material graph input nodes to material property view, but only find solution that use node group as a workaround.

I know we can "drill down" and find these input nodes eventually, and it's fine for simple graphs, but ideally I want to expose them at top level, as they are the values I care about and adjust frequently.

Is this possible in Blender 2.79?



As a reference point, my simple graph looks like this, as you can imagine, even with a few input nodes, the material properties "drill down" can get quite long due to underlying complexity.

ant1fact

bump, I'm curious about this too

RN

I didn't find any built-in way to do that, so I couldn't resist making an add-on for it:
https://gum.co/quick_node_access

@bitinn I'm sending you a copy as thanks for the idea.

bitinn

@RN haha, solving blender issues one after another, will check it out later and report back  

ant1fact

haha @RN what a boss you are!

bitinn

@RN just tested, node work as expected, and save/load properly, great job!

One minor improvement: I would prefer any new quick access node to append at the bottom, not at the top.

In case people don't understand why this is needed, here is why: expose material properties in property view so you can tune them easily, instead of navigation inside node editor.

RN

Cool! good to know it's working.

I changed it to add nodes at the bottom.

EDIT: Hmm, talking about changes, removing the separator between the boxes makes the thing more compact.
Do you guys think this is better -- first is the original as it is, second is the same without the separators: