Procedural Shading Node
Uses a procedural system to shade a material.
Procedural Shading Node
Method #
Uses a Procedural System as a shading value source. The effect of this shading node is the distance to the surface of the connected procedural.
The output of this node can be connected to other shading nodes, to build up a more complex shading system.
Parameters
These properties control the core behaviours of the node.
Parameter Details
Mapping Type What kind of mapping is to be applied.
- World Position : The position of each vertex relative to the scene world space (most commonly used with spherical, planar, perspective mappings).
- Object Local Position : The position of each vertex relative to the objects local space.
- View-Space Position : The position of each vertex relative to the cameras view.
- Texture Coordinate : The position of each vertex relative to the objects texture coordinates.
- World Normal : The world normals after transformations are applied.
Output Channel Which channel will be affected by the fractal noise.
- Colour RGBA : Output colour & alpha channels
- Colour RGB : Output colour channels only
- Colour Alpha : Output alpha channel only
- Normal : Output to normals
- Texture Coordinate : Output to texture coordinates
- Position : Output to texture positions
Shader Pass How the final modified shading is applied to the shape.
- Vertex : The shading is only changed from vertex to vertex.
- Tessellation : The shading is applied as the model is tessellated. only functions with tessellation enabled in connected objects.
- Pixel : The shading is applied per pixel in screen space, so it will always be applied optimally.
Blend Amount The amount the generator is blended with the output.
Inputs
These properties control the core behaviours of the node.
| Parameter | Details |
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| Mapping Type | What kind of mapping is to be applied.
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| Output Channel | Which channel will be affected by the fractal noise.
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| Shader Pass | How the final modified shading is applied to the shape.
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| Blend Amount | The amount the generator is blended with the output. |
| Name | Description | Typical Input |
|---|---|---|
| Procedural Root | The root node of the procedural network to calculate a distance from. | Procedural Root |
| Transform Modifiers | Apply the transforms of another node to this node. | Null |
| Target Node | Modifiy the rotations of the node to always direct the z axis towards the input. | Null |
| Local Transform Override | Apply the transforms of another node to this node, relative to its parent. | Null |