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SZM/首字母 earns its place for bringing pinyin-based search to Blender's node and modifier menus. Version 1.2.0 added support for new nodes in Blender 5.0. It's released under GPL v3.0 or later, and the developer welcomes community pull requests to expand the node dictionary.
SZM/首字母 is a Blender add-on from developer Xinyu Zhu that improves how you find nodes in the add node menu and modifier menu. Rather than typing full English names, you can search using Chinese characters' pinyin initials, and the add-on also accepts full pinyin, Chinese characters, and English names.
Search behaviour is configurable through the add-on preferences. You can customize the index, choose to search by English name, and enable optional ambiguous phonetic settings (n=l, f=h, r=l). The add-on ships as an extension for Blender 4.2 LTS and later, with a legacy version available for older Blender releases. On Blender 4.0 and later you search from the add node menu; on Blender 3.X you use the F3 search menu.
The internal node dictionary is a static list based on Blender 4.3, so it does not cover custom node groups or nodes from other Blender builds and add-ons. It was sponsored and tested by 执念净化, and the developer welcomes community pull requests to expand the dictionary.
szm/首字母 is best for chinese-speaking Blender users who want to search nodes and modifiers by pinyin, with English-name search also available.
szm/首字母 is completely free to download and use.
SZM/首字母 provides an extension add-on for Blender 4.2 LTS and later, along with a legacy version for older Blender releases that also runs on 4.2 and newer. On Blender 4.0 and later, you can search nodes by Chinese pinyin initials directly from the add node menu. On Blender 3.X, searching happens through the F3 search menu instead. The internal node dictionary is based on Blender 4.3, so it does not include some deprecated nodes found in older Blender versions.
SZM/首字母 relies on a static internal node dictionary based on Blender 4.3, which means it does not support custom node groups or nodes coming from other Blender builds or add-ons. The dictionary also leaves out some deprecated nodes present in older Blender versions. The developer encourages the community to expand the dictionary through pull requests, and asks contributors to provide the source of any dictionary additions for review. If you work heavily with custom node groups, keep this limitation in mind.
SZM/首字母 supports searching by full pinyin, Chinese characters' pinyin initials, Chinese characters, and English name. Users who prefer English can select the English name option in the add-on preferences and search nodes that way in the Node Editor. The add-on also includes optional ambiguous phonetic settings (n=l, f=h, r=l) that you can enable in the preferences, and you can customize the search index there as well to fit how you like to look up nodes.
SZM/首字母 is listed as free here and is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. The extension does not require special permissions. You can install it by dragging and dropping the file into Blender, or by downloading it and installing from disk through Blender's preferences. For current licensing details and to get the add-on, check the developer's page on GitHub.
SZM/首字母 version 1.2.0 added support for new nodes in Blender 5.0. This is the version currently listed, published in December 2024. The add-on is developed by Xinyu Zhu and was sponsored and tested by 执念净化. It enhances node and modifier menu search using Chinese pinyin initials, full pinyin, Chinese characters, and English names, and you can customize the search index and enable optional ambiguous phonetic settings from the preferences.
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