Adjusting the offsets of a bilinear is difficult because you cannot interactively adjust the offsets on the image while viewing the result of the manipulation in action. You can use the channel editor to adjust the values, but this is sometimes problematic.

In version 5/8, you can work around this limitation by using multiviews in batch. What you end up with a 2-up view with the offsets edit on one side and the context view of action on the other. That way you can interactively adjust the offsets while watching context. Context view in batch doesn’t have the limitation of switching over to the offsets view as is normal with normal action views.

 

All you need to do is simply set your current action node as the context view.

Then set the action for 2-up view (Hotkey: ALT-2). Select context on one side and action on the other. Then when you go to edit offsets, you’ll see the result of your manipulations in action.

 

 

Submitter: John Montgomery