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Add-on Improved Node Search
Improved Node Search

Navigate your node tree faster via more node search options.
Add-on by Griperis
About What's New Reviews Version History

Empowering the node tree search by providing various search options and highlighting the found nodes or occurrences in a node group. Just press CTRL+F to try it!

Search options

The extension brings text search inside multiple node properties. Text search has also option for regular expression search. For geometry nodes you can also search through attributes.

Option Description
Name Search in names of nodes
Label Search in labels of nodes
Type Search in the blidname property

Additionally the extension can help you with identifying problems in your node trees using non text search options.

Option Description
Disconnected Nodes Finds nodes that do not connect to anything, but have outputs
Missing Image Nodes Finds image nodes that do not have image or whose image is invalid
Missing Node Groups Finds node groups with empty node trees (Missing DNA block error)

Found nodes can be selected, or navigated one by one using the Select Found, Previous and Next buttons.

Display options

Found nodes are highlighted by a border if onscreen or a circle indicating location of the found node is displayed if the node is off-screen. The overlay can be toggled on and off by the Bulb Icon next to Search

Occurrences in node group are indicated by a number displayed next to the node. The display can be customized by changing the Highlight Color, Border Attenuation and Text Size.

Display options are located in the Display subpanel.


What's New

1.0.4 November 2nd, 2024
  • support for Serpens addon node trees
  • added Exact Match option
  • fixed attribute search error when no relevant nodes were found
  • redraw area after search

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Permissions

This extension does not require special permissions.

Developer
Griperis
Rating
(3)
Version
1.0.4
Updated
6 mo
Published
July 14th, 2024
Downloads
16076
Size
10.2 KB
Compatibility
Blender 4.2  and newer
Website
github.com/Griperis/BlenderImprovedNodeSearch
Report Issues
github.com/Griperis/BlenderImprovedNodeSearch/issues
License
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
Node User Interface
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Reviews

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  • Joseph-Steinruck
  • v1.0.4
  • 6 mo

Don't know if there may be some sort of limitation with enabling this feature but lacks the ability to Find Frames which i use fairly frequently so that's my main critique here otherwise great addon/extension(is blender officially switching to extensions btw now or what? lol)

  • Griperis replied
  • 5 mo

Hi, thanks for the rating, it's indeed a limitation currently. I have a ticket opened for it https://github.com/Griperis/BlenderImprovedNodeSearch/issues/3 and it will most likely come in the feature :)

  • Besvy
  • v1.0.3
  • 6 mo

Pretty good,this addon can simplify my work flows

  • Royalj
  • v1.0.3
  • 9 mo

a really nice improvement to the node search

5.0

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