Does custom function nodes improve performance?

Smith_076 · November 2, 2023, 5:35am

I have a bunch of sub graphs with a lot of nodes, i want to know if converting the sub graphs into individual sub graphs would improve performance.

DevDunk · November 8, 2023, 3:06pm

Subgraphs probably won’t give better performance.
Custom nodes can improve performance if you know how to optimize text based shaders.

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