A node that holds an object’s geometry attributes or attributes other than the object’s transform node attributes. A shape node is always a child of a transform node. Unlike transform nodes, shape nodes do not appear in the Outliner by default.

• Anatomy of a shading node plug-in
• Special shading nodes
• Shading nodes classification
• Writing a shading node plug-in
• Evaluating shading nodes outside of the rendering context
• Hide shape and transform nodes in Hypershade