Encapsulating and organizing Networks from the start of the project is a great practice to get in the habit of. The current path is always visible in the ’Path Bar’ at the top of the ’Network Editor’.

All TouchDesigner Operators have a path. These paths are similar to Unix file paths. There are two kinds of paths to an Operator: the ’absolute path’ and the ’relative path’. The ’absolute path’ is the path to the Operator from the ’root’ of the project, or ’/’. The ’relative path’ is the path to an Operator from another Operator. These paths start from the Network of the referencing Operator, instead of starting from the ’root’.

Notice that the viewer of ’network2’ is displaying an Operator from inside of it. This technique will be discussed more in later examples, but what is important now is the path used. In the ’Operator Viewer’ parameter of ’network2’, there is the path to ’./display’, where ’display’ is the name of the Operator, and ’./’ denotes one level inside of the referencing Operator, which is ’network2’ in this case.