File output node improvements

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Hi there!

I was wondering is there any chance to see this features in next blender releases:

In compositing sidebar a button that creates file output node with inputs based on render layers. And also some settings for this button:

  1. you can select the number of inputs per render layer
  2. ability to name suffixes for every input
  3. a checkbox that makes this button create file output nodes per render layer instead one. Number of inputs per render layer still remain.

An example:

I have 2 render layers:

  1. Cube
  2. Sphere

I want to export combined, diffuse and ao passes per each render layer. I am navigating compositor sidebar to change some settings:
Selecting “3 inputs per render layer”. Then 3 entry fields appear. I leave first one blank, in second typing “_diffuse”, in third typing “_AO”. Then i hit this new button and it creates file output node with 6 inputs:

  1. Cube
  2. Cube_diffuse
  3. Cube_AO
  4. Sphere
  5. Sphere_diffuse
  6. Sphere_AO

If i enable this checkbox i described earlier, I’ll receive this:
First file output node:

  1. Cube
  2. Cube_diffuse
  3. Cube_AO
    Second file output node:
  4. Sphere
  5. Sphere_diffuse
  6. Sphere_AO

This options would be huge time saver for me. Also file output node needs one more option: checkbox that exclude frame numbers in base path.

So what do you think?