1.4. Properties

Next, we look at nodes in greater detail. The vast majority of nodes contain Properties which are the user-modifiable values that control a node’s behavior. Properties are displayed to the user in the [Node Properties Panel], which lists a node’s properties and provides controls for altering their values.

Properties can be connected to one another, and those connections are what form the pipeline - when you connect property “A” to property “B”, changes to the value of property “A” are mirrored by property “B”, as if the user had changed property “B” manually.

Now that we can see that connections among nodes are made via properties, we can provide additional detail in our diagrams by labeling properties that are connected:

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Note that we often leave-out details of which properties are connected, so long as the meaning of the diagram is unambiguous.