Hypershade Options menu

Create Bar

Contains options for managing the Create Bar display: Show Create Bar, Display Icons and Text, Display Icons Only.

For more information on the Create Bar, see Hypershade window.

Bins Sort Shading Node Only

By default, the bins in the Hypershade help you to organize only the shading nodes in your scene. If you disable the Bins Sort Shading Node Only option, then the Hypershade bins can organize all the nodes in your scene. To avoid clutter and to simplify your workflow, you may want to enable this option to only sort the shading nodes in your scene.

Display (Work Area Only)

Use these to control the display of shapes and transforms. See Hide shape and transform nodes in Hypershade.

• No Shapes: No shapes are displayed in Hypershade.
• All Shapes except Shading Groups members: Only shapes that are directly connected to shading nodes are shown. Shapes that are only connected to the Shading Groups are not shown.
• All Shapes: All shapes are displayed, including ones that are connected to the Shading Groups only for the purpose of expressing set membership.
• Transforms: Transforms are shown.

  The display of transform nodes in Hypershade is controlled by the "Transforms" flag in the object’s Attribute editor.

Keep Swatches at Current Resolution

Does not rerender swatches in the Hypershade when you zoom. This is helpful if a scene is complex and there are many swatches in a Hypershade layout.

Clear Before Graphing

If Clear Before Graphing is on, selecting a node already in the Work Area and performing a Graph Input and, or Output Connections operation clears the Work Area before the new graph is drawn. If Clear Before Graphing is off, the same workflow adds the nodes in the new graph to the Work Area without removing previous nodes.

Show Relationships Connections

Shows connections that do not represent data flow.

Merge Connections

Displays multiple connections between two nodes as a single, bold line. For more information, see Merge connections.