New in Vuo 2.0
While some nodes are generally useful, others are more specialized. They may only make sense within the context of a certain composition. Thus, you may not want them to appear in your Node Library when you’re working on unrelated compositions.
You can make a node available only to selected compositions by
installing it in a
Composition-Local Library.
For example, let’s say you have a composition called
Reptiles.vuo
saved to your Desktop. You
have a subcomposition called
me.crocodile.vuo
and a node called
me.tortoise.vuonode
that you need only for
Reptiles.vuo
. You can create a folder
called Modules on your
Desktop and place me.crocodile.vuo
and
me.tortoise.vuonode
in that folder.
A Composition-Local Library is a folder called Modules located in the same folder as a composition. When you have that composition open, the nodes in the Composition-Local Library appear in the Node Library.
If there’s more than one composition in the same folder as Modules, all of those compositions can “see” and make use of the nodes in that Composition-Local Library.
A subcomposition within a Composition-Local Library may contain other nodes that are installed in the same Composition-Local Library. It may also contain nodes that are installed in the User Library or System Library folder.
If you install a subcomposition in a Composition-Local Library and later decide that you want to make the node available to all compositions, you can open the subcomposition and go to
.