Reply To: Blender Cycles – Technical (developer) question about various types of Cycles Shader data-streams

Forum Archive Blender Cycles – Technical (developer) question about various types of Cycles Shader data-streams Reply To: Blender Cycles – Technical (developer) question about various types of Cycles Shader data-streams

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Ronald Vermeij
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    Hello Catherine,
    Nice to know that you are already a C++ pro.. I’m currently busy reviving my (25 years ago) old C-skills, in order to start some serious digging and reading into the Blender source-code.

    What I initially wanted to understand is:
    – How Cycles works under the hood.
    – What type of (image, color, vector) data is being transported between the various nodes.
    – Why one can connect one color node output-stream into another (different) color node-input
    Since the official Blender “manual” seriously lacks this type of information (if any info is present at all :-})

    I’m not looking for any kind of information about C-datatypes. but thanks for the reference to the website
    It is a very informative place to learn from.