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thereisone

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Instead of using the value control wheel sliders, would it be possible to have a hand grabber that you can drag X and Y at the same time? Similar to the one that pans around the filter nodes when you hold spacebar.

You could use this for things like offset or scale with the Origin X Y controls. I also find this handy in photoshop to position gradients rather than using the manual controls.

Thoughts?
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Sphinxmorpher
Filter Optimizer

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This would be very useful, and perhaps also a factor for zoom in/out.

The key challenge here is how the control would work in the inside. Currently FF only supports one output per component.

Of course a color composite could be "misused" to represent x,y and zoom instead of rgb, but that is not very intuitive (I used that approach along with the color picker dialog here to get similar positional control).

A much better approach would be to deal with the multiple outputs issue al together. The "plus" components introduce a method of supplying variables to the sub tree components. A similar design could be used to add additional outputs. This would allow many other components to output useful internal layers smile:-)

Mockup:

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thereisone

Posts: 27
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Nice, that's actually a pretty good mockup of how it could work, and not way too complicated to develop ('m guessing.

Then you could use remapping of the X and Y on the new position controls.
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ddaydreams
Frank Hawkins
Posts: 412
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Yes it would be nice to be able to grab a procedural image via hand tool to scroll the whole image in any direction to be able to position then just release to regenerate the view. This is very intuitive. Kinda like the way a google street map or satellite image works with a hand grab tool.
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Yuya
2D/3D Generalist

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Why isn't this a thing?
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