It is just turns pink !

[shan jay]

Why when I connect the mix shader to the background it Turns pink. What is the reason?

Here is the node!👇🏼

[spikeyxxx]

Hi shanr, you are using a Mix Shader instead of a Color > Mix RGB Node! (You can see a red line where you connect the output of the Mix Shader to the Color input of the Background Shader, indicating that the connection is wrong!)

[Shawn Blanch]

Yup. Use Mix RGB instead and it should work better.

I’ve done that a time or two.

[spikeyxxx]

The naming of these two nodes is a bit inconvenient, I think…It took me a few years before I understood the difference and when to use which, (This was before the different types of Nodes had different colors; all the Nodes where grey, which made it a lot less obvious…I can’t even look at that any more.)

A Mix Shader is not just a ‘Shader that mixes’, but it mixes Shaders. In the same way: a Mix RGB, mixes (RGB) colors.

I like to think of them as ‘Shader Mixer’ and ‘RGB Mixer’…

Also an Add Shader is not just a ‘Shader that adds’, but it adds Shaders together, so more of a ‘Shader Adder”…

[shan jay]

It Worked!

[Chris Bailey]

Glad you worked it out shanr! Thanks for the great answer spikeyxxx and Shawn.  🙂

[Mark Smith]

I like Spikeys word shifts, that helps a bunch on how to remember what they do…

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