Just one of the new features, Viewer node for Cycles materials

Version 1.0 was, lets face it, not particularly useful. In fact the only thing I still use from it occasionally is that auto-arrangement feature. However, since the Zoom-Fit function inspired Henrik Aarnio to include it in trunk with the Alt+Home key, it wasn’t completely useless at all.

In fact, I’ve secretly been working on a whole bucket-full of new features!

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I’ve made a page specifically for this addon, and I’ll continue to update it as I add more features. Here’s a summary of the features as they stand right now (but check the page for the very latest):

• Viewer node for Cycles materials (Ctrl+Shift+Click)
• Delete unused nodes (Alt+X)
• UV Layer nodes – add an attribute node from a list of available UV maps with the name field already filled in (Shift+A > Input > UV Maps > [map name])
• Switch the type of one or more nodes to a related type, like a different shader (Alt+S), keeping inputs and outputs connected
• Swap the output connections of two nodes (Alt+Shift+S)
• Reset the compositor backdrop image zoom and position (Z)
• Frame the selected nodes (Shift+P)
• Reload the images of all the image nodes in the current tree (Alt+R)
• Quickly jump to the Image Editor and view the image of the selected node. Works for textures, movie clips, environment images, render layers, viewer nodes and masks.
• Automatically arrange the selected nodes (or all of them) in a non-overlapping linear layout (Q)

The todo list is public on GitHub, as is the changelog which is updated automatically as I commit changes and new features.

That page I mentioned earlier has a lot more info on each feature, including a gif showing their usage.