Pipe Router

Pipe Routers are another type of organizational tool you use to improve the layout and appearance of the node tree.

Routers can be used to neatly organize your comps by creating “elbows” in your node tree, so the connection lines do not overlap nodes, making them easier to understand. Routers do not have any influence on render times.

Router

To insert a router along a connection line, Option- or Alt-click on the line. The router can then be repositioned to arrange the connections as needed.

Although routers have no actual controls, they still can be used to add comments to a comp.