Searching the help

Simply type the words you want to search for, separated by spaces.

render quality

By default, the search results only show documents that match all the words you type (an “AND” search). You can use AND, OR, NOT, and parentheses to do boolean searches.

render AND (quality OR time) NOT shadow

To search for a phrase (a series of words next to each other), put the phrase in quotation marks.

"render quality"

To search for all words beginning with a certain prefix, add an asterisk (*) to the end of the word.

real*

(Note that the search automatically expands word stems, so searching for renders also finds occurances of render, rendering, rendered, and so on.)

The search indexes several different “fields” for each document, such as the title, the contents, and each document’s type (such as node). Normally when you type a word, the search looks for the word in the title and contents fields. However, you can search for words in other fields by prepending a word (or phrase) with the name of a field and a colon, for example:

title:render

The type field is useful for filtering results.

• type:expression – only matches expression functions

• type:hscript – only matches HScript commands

• type:vex – only matches vex functions

• type:hommethod – only matches HOM methods

• type:homclass – only matches HOM classes

• type:node – only matches node documentation

For example, if you're looking for HScript commmand docs containing the word shader

shader type:hscript

The context field is used for both the network type of node documentation, and the context of vex functions. For example, to search for the word copy only in the node documentation of surface nodes:

copy type:node context:sop

To search for the word light only in VEX functions that are available in the “surface” context:

light type:vex context:surface