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# 6 21-01-2011 , 10:18 PM
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Well... yes and no I would say. Yes, they all show nodes and to some extent connections, but I think they get used in very different ways. The outliner only shows nodes, not attributes, whereas the AE shows mainly attributes, and only a few nodes. The hypergraph is somewhere in between, because you can see (pretty much like in the hypershade) how the nodes are connected via attributes. E.g. in the hypershade, you can plug a file texture into a certain attribute. Now you can do that in the AE, but you only see one node at a time, and you can't really see that at all in the outliner. The outliner is good for selection and hierarchical stuff (grouping and parenting), but that can all be done in the hypergraph too.

Outliner: An "outline" of all the nodes in the scene and how they are connected at a very general level
Attribute Editor: All the attributes for a given node, and a few other nodes (in tabs) that are connected to it
Hypershade/hypergraph: A visual depiction of the connections between nodes and the attributes by which they are connected


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Last edited by stwert; 21-01-2011 at 10:22 PM.