Tip of the Week: Hypershader Connections - Part 2

Here's a quick follow-up to last week's tip:

Hovering the cursor over a connection arrow gives you detailed information about the connection - you'll see the output attribute from one node and the input attribute from the other.

But you can also tell, at a glance, what type of connections are in place.

Hypershader connections are color coded according to data type. Green arrows indicate connections for triple-valued attributes such as color, specular color, or any other rgb/xyz channel. Dark blue arrows indicate single-valued attributes such as diffuse. Light blue indicates a double-valued attribute such as repeatUV. If you're working with merged connections, a bold yellow arrow indicates that there are multiple connections between two nodes.