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@AustinCampbell
11/10
Brilliant and hilarious
Brillarious!
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I dig it Austin! But if I opened up someone’s set up and saw it go from top to bottom like this I would struggle to not have a shit fit. I’m looking on my phone which isn’t helping, but I’m trying to figure out if there’s a specific reason you’ve got it organized like this?
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Thanks man!
I hid a bunch of connections and did not like the idea of creating a gap left to right so I landed on a weird hybrid world 
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Admittedly, I did not put much brain power into forcing the setup to be strictly left to right. I will give it a shot later this week!
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The hidden connections explains a lot! I thought I was having a stroke or something. I was like, “what in the world? I cannot figure out what is going on in terms of how this is all chaining.” To each their own, and I mean that sincerely. But hidden connections would be another thing that if I picked up a batch set up would make me snap my Wacom pen in half. I don’t want to be preachy or overly proscriptive, but there is definitely a balance between making something aesthetically clean as a batch layout and setting something up so another artist could pick it up and immediately feel like they know what’s happening (whether it’s setting something up as a template/ look for other artists or being ready for someone to potentially need to pick the setup up in future). Just something to be aware of! I’m probably reminding myself of this as much as anyone else right now to be honest (time to add some compasses on Monday LOL!)
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Totally agree! I might have hidden too much.
I tried to keep everything that should be altered exposed and hid the craziness of the “hard key” pipes.
I often use the “hide input” feature in the mux to avoid crossing pipes but only when I want to use my hero plate later in a setup. I typically name the mux “plate_mux###” and expose the thumbnail as a hint that this mux is “unique”.
Some would argue that I could dupe the plate to avoid the crossing, but plates can change. I’d rather replace the plate at the start and have it ripple through the setup than go to every instance and manually replace it.
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When working in teams:
Hidden mux inputs are as worse as nuke stamps without context.
Prob nuke stamps are worse because they won’t show you a hint from where it came from.
Stamps have nice added features, but using hide input on the standard dot node in Nuke works well, when you select the dot, the input is temporarily unhidden. And name the node for context.
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