Removing Channels and Layers

When you are done using a layer or a channel within a layer, you may wish, for the sake of clarity, to remove it so that it is no longer passed to downstream nodes. Note that leaving channels in the stream does not itself cause them to be computed, only channels required are computed.

Note:  When a script is saved, any channels that are not referenced in the script are discarded automatically.

To Remove a Layer or a Channel Within a Layer

1.

Click Channel > Remove to insert a Remove node at the appropriate point in your script.

2.

In the Remove properties panel, select the layer you wish to remove from the channels fields.

3.

If you don’t wish to remove the entire layer, uncheck the boxes corresponding to the channels which you still wish to be able to call downstream.

4.

Click OK to close the properties panel.

The layer and/or the channels you removed are no longer displayed in node parameters downstream from the Remove node.

Note:  Removing layers and or channels does not free up space for the creation of new channels and layers. Once you create a channel, it permanently consumes one of the script’s 1023 available channel name slots. You are free, however, to rename channels and/or assign them new outputs.