While following along with a tutorial, the viewer node eventually stopped updating to reflect changes. I figured I made a large mistake and eventually deleted every node and completely started over. For whatever reason though, the viewer node now shows absolutely nothing no matter what I try. Does anyone know the potential mistake I made or is this a bug?
I would like to add that the backdrop does work properly on the compositing window.
Hello and welcome to BlenderArtists.
You’ve disabled your Backdrop compositing setting. This is required for the Compositing Editor to display your post-render, in real-time, in the background.
This unfortunately did not fix it. As I mentioned, backdrop works as intended but nothing continues to show in the image editor.
Viewer node can be finicky sometimes. Try creating and connecting another viewer node to force a refresh.
A few more possible solutions:
- Are you sure that you’ve rendered your scene initially (F12)?
- Is this setting enabled?
- Properties Editor → View Layer Properties → View Layer → Use for Rendering
So I believe I may have found the solution which was comically close all along. It would appear, for whatever reason, the name for the real viewer node in linked images has seemingly swapped or been reset right under my nose. I swapped to another data block simply named “Image” which is giving me the same effect as the viewer node and showing live changes as the viewer should. Thank you for the help provided regardless, I may have to look back at it later at this rate haha.
