Parent

Parents additional child hierarchies into the main scene hierarchy.

user

Container for user-defined plugs. Nodes should never make their own plugs here, so users are free to do as they wish.

out

The processed output scene.

enabled

The on/off state of the node. When it is off, the node outputs the input scene unchanged.

in

The input scene

filter

The filter used to control which parts of the scene are processed. A Filter node should be connected here.

parent

The location which the children are parented under. This is ignored when a filter is connected, in which case the children are parented under all the locations matched by the filter.

destination

The location where the children will be placed in the output scene. The default is to place the children under the parent, but they may be relocated anywhere while still inheriting the parent’s transform. This is particularly useful when parenting lights to geometry but wanting to group them and control their visibility separately.

When the destination is evaluated, the ${scene:path} variable holds the source location matched by the filter. This allows the children to be placed relative to the “parent”. For example, ${scene:path}/.. will place the children alongside the “parent” rather than under it.

children

The child hierarchies to be parented.

parentVariable

A context variable used to pass the location of the parent to the upstream nodes connected into the children plug. This can be used to procedurally vary the children at each different parent location.