Spreadsheet and viewer node for pixel and value processors

Question

Substance Designer pixel processors are so undeciferable puzzle usually coming after Blender. Why not have a spreadshit with values showing what exact data is coming through in each node. I also love math node in Blender where I can just switch the math instead of reconnecting new nodes.
 
Make it possible at least to show resulting values for math nodes  and some indication single value vs field etc.

davescm · Answer

I could see that working for some uses but the pixel processor could have for example 16 million values (one for each pixel in 4096 x 4096 size). A spreadsheet is not going to help there as the result.

What I sometimes do is replace the part of the graph that gets the value - e.g. sample gray /sample colour and temporarily replace that with a Float1 ( or Float4 if sampling colour). Similarly with other 'Get' values. That, plus quickly changing the output function node to different places within a graph allows fairly quick debugging.

On the math node with switchable math, instead of separate nodes for each math function - I agree that would be useful.

Dave

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