Nodes not attached still defined ?

[maxtarpini]

It looks that even nodes not attached to the Arnold Shader slot are still exported and being defined in an ass file (not only those exported manually but also those used by c4dtoa IPR etc.) .. doing so it will trigger their init and update sections even if they are not eventually used.

I see two problems here :

- (pluging) they should not be translated at all.

- (core) they should not be init/updated if not used.

Fix at least one 😉

[peter_horvath · Accepted solution]

A material is exported as a whole, including all shaders, no matter if they are connected to a root port or not. It was a design choice at the early stage of the plugin. You can argue, why exporting shaders which are not actually used, but on the other hand they are part of the scene eventually, so it's not that crazy.