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The more viewers you add, the more you may need help remembering which viewer is represented by which View indicator. Positioning the pointer over the View indicator in question will display a tooltip with the name of the viewer it represents.
Drag and Drop Nodes into a Viewer
If the View indicators are too small of a target for you to click on reliably and you are not keyboard oriented, another way to load a node into a viewer is to drag and drop it onto the viewer you want to load it into. This offers a quick explicit way to assign a node to a viewer, especially for pen and tablet users. Please note that as you drag, the node will appear to move at first, but it’ll snap back into its original location once the pointer leaves the Node Editor.
Using the Contextual Menu
You can also right-click a node, and then choose View On > Left or Right to display the node on the appropriate viewer.
Clearing Viewers
Whenever you load a node into a viewer, you prompt that node, all upstream nodes, and other related nodes to be rendered. If you load nodes into both viewers, this is doubly true. If you want to prevent your computer from processing views that aren’t currently necessary, you can clear each viewer.
— Press 1 or 2 to empty the left or right viewers if they’re filled.
— Press ` (the Accent key) to empty both viewers.
Create/Play Preview
TIP: Hold the Shift key when selecting the viewer from the menu to bypass the Render dialog and to start creating the preview immediately using the default settings or the last settings used to create a preview.
TIP: Hold the Shift key when selecting the viewer from the menu to bypass the Render dialog and to start creating the preview immediately using the default settings or the last settings used to create a preview.
TIP: Hold the Shift key when selecting the viewer from the menu to bypass the Render dialog and to start creating the preview immediately using the default settings or the last settings used to create a preview.
You can right-click a node, and choose an option from the Create/Preview Play On submenu of the contextual menu to render and play a preview of any node’s output on one of the available viewers. The Render Settings dialog is displayed, and after accepting the settings, the tool will be rendered and the resulting frames stored in RAM for fast playback on that view.