Rhia474 posted at 5:54 PM Thu, 5 October 2023 - #4475887

What is External Inputs???I'm sorry, I think I will have to remain with what oz_tangles showed. You guys are WAY too advanced for me.

Inside the compound node, you have two specific nodes, always present:
- External Inputs
- External Outputs

"Internal Inputs" correspond to the place where you connect what is kind of entering the Compound Node. Exemple with the "Cycles Surface" node:
- Surface
- Volume
- Displacement

Think that each node you use in the Material Room is in fact a Compound Node, but of the sort you can't look in.

The same way, "External Outputs" are where the signal, once computed in the Compound Node, will exit. Example with the Image Node: the "Color" output, which is also a kind of Compound Node, as it reads your image, process it with some parameters you control (U-scale, V-scale, offsets, etc...) and transforms all this into an information flow usable by other nodes

The specificity of a user's Compound Node is that:
- you control what you put in and how the information flow is processed
- you control which parameters and which outputs you want outside your new "magic node", a bit like adapting the buttons on a remote control, repositioning them, and why not offer to make coffee with one of the buttons you don't use to control the television  

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