But don??™t worry, you??™ll get it. Just think of these nodes as ingredients that you can
mix any way you want to create your final dish. Now, once the Crumple node has
been added, it appears in the workspace area, as shown in Figure 3.46.
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Figure 3.46 The Crumple node added to the workspace area in the Node Editor.
6. Taking a look at the preview thumbnail image at the top of the destination node
(which reads Surface), it looks as if nothing has changed. This is correct. Nothing
has changed. This is because even though you??™ve added the node, you need to
mix it in??”that is, place it into the network. To begin getting organized, you can
rename the default surface to something more specific. This is a good idea if
you??™re creating larger scenes. Right-click on the Surface name in the Node list
and choose Rename, as in Figure 3.47. You??™ll see that you can also access many
other commands with a right-click (Mac users, Cmd-click).
Figure 3.47 Right-click on the surface name in the Node list to rename it.
7. After renaming your surface, you??™ll see that the destination node now shows the
same.
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