Is there any keyboard shortcut to make a reroute pin?

I’m using a lot of reroute pins to order and maintain a legible flow on my blueprints. I found that when I want to put several reroute pins the process is a bit uncomfortable because I always have to scroll down for the reroute option at the end of the blueprint actions. I would like to be able to hit a key and then a reroute pin is placed, or to just drag one directly from a node. It is already possible or there are any plans for implementing it? Thanks in advance

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Hi Juan,

There aren’t any plans at the moment. We’d like to eventually add hit testing for splines, and if that happens, we’d almost certainly add a key to be able to insert a reroute node directly on the spline you clicked.

However, for right now you can add something like this to your DefaultEditorUserSettings.ini in your game project:

In DefaultEditorUserSettings.ini:     
[BlueprintSpawnNodes]
+Node=(Class=K2Node_Knot Key=R Shift=true Ctrl=false Alt=false)

Which will cause it to insert a reroute node when you click the mouse while R is held down, but it won’t be wired up to anything.

Cheers,
Michael Noland

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Thanks!

Thanks Michael, this helps me a lot at the moment

As a heads up, this feature was added during 4.8 development. You can now directly interact with splines in the graph editors, and double-click on them to insert reroute nodes in Blueprints:

Graph Editor: Added support for hovering and interacting with splines

  • Alt+LMB Click on the spline to break the connection
  • Ctrl+LMB Click on the spline to move the connection to a different pin
  • Hover over the spline to highlight it or see the tooltip
  • Double-click to insert a reroute node (Blueprint graphs only)

Cheers,
Michael Noland

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Thanks again Michael, that sounds really interesting, looking forward to try it on the next release

Hi Ben, I’m happy with having this question in the answer hub as well :slight_smile: