Quote - Strange, usualy you always use Alt_Diffuse ... Why not in this case ?

I usually have to do GC in the shader, which means I have to take over what the root node usually does.

The root nodes does not let me add GC to it after. There is nothing I can do to add anything after the root node.

So ... I usually do not use anything built into the root node. I use the Alternate_Diffuse channel, which is pretty much a channel that exactly defines the output, without any more interpretation by the root node. When you see me use the Alternate_Diffuse channel of the root node, and pretty much nothing else, you can assume I'm doing that because the Root node is useless to me, is no advantage, and I wish it were gone in that case.

However, with Poser Pro 2010, I do not need to do GC in the shader. It will be done after the root node automatically. Which means the Root node math is very helpful. It contains, built in, a Diffuse node, a Specular node, and lots of other things, and it adds them all together.

Do I need the root node to provide all these things? No - I can do them myself and add them together. But when the root node does the job of 5 other nodes, (so long as GC is taken care of by the renderer, not the shader) then I use the full features of the root node.

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