It took me a while to get my head round how it works and I'm still finding my way round using it but then it is a powerful tool.  I found the best way to learn it was to find a material that were sort of how I wanted a material I'm making to be, copy them and then play with the copies to see if you can get the new effect.  Sometimes I'll borrow something from another material and combine it with the one I'm working on to get a new effect.

If you don't like it Vue does give you other ways to produce materials but you can't control.  Or you could learn Python and write your own material functions for the different properties but I've not even looked at that option yet other than reading the function names in the manual.

As to calling them nodes - I'm afraid that is pretty common terminology for systems like this so, as with other terminology, like it or hate it you just have to accept it and see if you can make it work.

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