Organizing your nodes in Blender Cycles
When dealing with them, nodes can be quite a handful. There are so many, all interconnected in some way. Sometimes you can lose sight of what node is performing which function.
Especially when you created a large node tree and return to your Blender file a few days later, it’s easy to forget why you did something. What were you thinking when you connected that color socket to the strength factor of your mix node? Luckily, there are several ways in Blender Cycles to organize your nodes.
Tutorial created in Blender 2.74
Music: Kevin MacLeod - Just As Soon