[Bf-funboard] Color Node

[Knapp]

Yes that makes sense but I wonder if I am the only one that did not even
now that was there because I always looked for in in color but could not
find it? Maybe I am a lone idiot. LOL

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Greg Zaal <gregzzmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Input nodes (are supposed to) always serve as a starting point in a node
> tree and have no input sockets - they *create* the data for the rest of the
> tree to operate on. Other nodes, like the RGB colour mix node, can go
> anywhere in the tree as they do have input sockets and are intended to
> change the data that they are given.
>
> In some cases this logic can be bent a bit - the MixRGB node doesn't *have*
> to have inputs, you might like to just mix the two colours of the empty
> sockets; the Fresnel node is considered an Input node, although it does
> have a socket for the IOR and Normal (yet usually these are not connected,
> or have only a short chain of nodes connected to them)
>
> -Greg
>
> On 20 April 2015 at 08:19, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Why is the RGB color node in input and not in color group? If we do that
> > then should not the RGB color mix node also be in input group as it
> inputs
> > two colors?
> >
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