BACKDROP nodes for the HYPERSHADE (less clutter, clearer graph and ability to comment)

[Alexx31]

many other node based softwares have it, but Maya still not: Backdrop nodes to sort everything nicely, to move a bunch of nodes around and to comment.

Please consider after many many years some basic UI improvements for the Hypershade, which is the main tool for look development.

I have copied screenshots from the suggestions of the Node Editor - the same applies for the Hypershade.

(And actually, it would only need one good Editor, that can do the tasks of both Hypershade and Node Editor - the difference would be then just different layouts and panels.)

Backdrop nodes let you organize way better

(Here a comparison between Maya and Houdini what it means for working with nodes)

same for the Hypershadeexample from Nuke

[Kranos_Orphydian]

great effort dude

[wuhailu]

hypershade is being replaced by maya lookdevx.

[Alexx31]

okay, I have never seen this new UI… when is it coming? 

It looks better, but I will post the same feature request then, too 😉

Backdrop nodes please, don’t be lazy at this point.

So simple, so cheap to achieve, no reason not to implement this, it even doesn’t touch anything else, it’s a pure UI feature. 

[Alexx31]

I googled it: Look at the first comment!

„as long as it has backdrop nodes….“

https://www.reddit.com/r/3dsmax/comments/la5et4/what_do_you_think_of_the_new_lookdevx_material/

[wuhailu]

Please see here for details.

https://www.materialx.org/

https://www.materialx.org/assets/ASWF_OSD2021_MaterialX_slides_final.pdf

https://www.materialx.org/assets/MaterialX_Sig2020_BOF_slides.pdf

[Alexx31]

I can see it at Substance in the docs, but still not in the Autodesk part… 

 

[wuhailu]

behind.

[Alexx31]

unreal engine Backdrop nodes

Unreal engine has it now, too

https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.0/en-US/unreal-engine-5-0-release-notes/

[Ninurta13]

Autodesk as always.
why do it for people.
if you can do everything carelessly.
Developers are lazy pigs.

they have an army of programmers.
but they only swim in the pool and get their millions.