Node Kit - Blender add-on to manage (save and load) nodes in Node Editor

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Hi, long time no see.
Node Kit now can correctly load Image Texture nodes, just check out the latest update to test it.

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Hello rkt
Thank you for creating the feature.
Unfortunately it does not seem to work well yet.

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2019-07-16%2022_16_30-Blender1115×543 72.5 KB

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I create the same setup as the screenshot in your post, but everything works well, can you upload your blend file here? I just need to get a closer look.

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Thank you for confirming.:grinning:
As before
There was no error in destroying an existing preset and saving it anew.

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Thanks for your useful feedback. :slight_smile:

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Hey man looks like you’ve been updating the addon. I was adding a few world presets when I realized the images were not recalled properly. Is this something that can be added or fixed?

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Can you try remove your world preset and save and restore it, I think the old preset did not save Image relative info.

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These presets were created last night with the new presets system. It might not be the latest version but its the version before the updates made after my last comment.

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So I need some closer look into it, can you upload the blend file with this issue here?
I tested the world shader node, and the image seems to be working well.

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The node is a group node that contains an environment image inside. I don’t think I can share the nodes as it comes from Asset Management which is a paid addon. Maybe you have it. By simply creating an environment setup inside a group should be enough for you to test it out. Let me know if that helps please.

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I just saved a environment image node in a node group, and it worked well. This GIF just show it:

env-node-group-image-demo

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Yes I was actually doing that after I used the latest version you have on Gumroad and it works. So I guess there was something wrong with the version I had. Will report back if it anything goes wrong. Thanks again for the quick reply mate.

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Thank you for let me know it works. Any feedback is welcome. :smiley:

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One more question is there anywhere I can read the presets so I can manually add the pictures path so I don’t have to remake those environment settings entirely?

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The presets are saved in Add-on preferences, and you can export the whole presets into a JSON file, but the JSON file is encoded in Base64 which is not plain text you can edit.

But instead of editing the image path manually, I suggest you to just restore the preset, and change the picture path and then save the preset to a new preset, delete the old preset.

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Yeah that’s a good idea. And a request or at least know if you have it in the roadmap. Categories and Subcategories so you don’t have a long list of mixed up preset types.

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It’s a bad idea to edit presets directly which should sometimes break the syntax of the preset, and you will lost the preset and it’s hard to recover them.

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Yep, Managing preset by folders are in my plan, will add this feature in a few days.

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Awesome. So what about the presets we already had? Are we going to be able to move them into folders? I want to avoid creating stuff now that I won’t be able to manage later.

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The presets you already have will be automatically move to the Default folder after you install the new addon and open Blender.