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gustaf

06 Jan, 2014 12:12 PM

Happy new year!

Cant find any information what separates these nodes from the vanilla empty node?

Gustaf

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Frederik De Ble... on 06 Jan, 2014 12:21 PM

   

   generate and filter are template nodes that can be used when building your own geometry-related nodes. The default node (called "node") is used for general-purpose operations, such as math or string nodes.

   generate:

   • Sets the output type to geometry.

   filter:

   • Extends from the generate node.
   • Has one input port, shape, that takes geometry data.

   You can see the definition of the nodes in the corevector source.

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2. 2 Posted by gustaf on 06 Jan, 2014 06:24 PM

   

   so apart from having some extra presets on the input and output ports they do the same thing?

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Frederik De Ble... on 06 Jan, 2014 06:59 PM

   

   Yes, they have the same core functionality. The general idea is that if you write nodes that manipulate geometry, you extend from generate or filter. Otherwise, extend from core.node.

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