Warp

Updated: 9 Sep 2025

Warp a shading system.

Method #

This node warps a connected shading node using the first shading node input. Useful for adjusting how a shading system affects a surface or volume its applied to.

The output of this node is a shader, which can either be combined with other Shading nodes for more complex designs, or applied to Materials to directly control one of the material channels. They can also be applied to Fields, where they can be used on the various channels on the Field Emitters to control how the smoke is generated, and Field Materials to control how the field is rendered.

Parameters

Attributes

These properties control the core behaviours of the node.

Parameter	Details
Warp Mode	The warp mode. Directional : Warps along a single direction as defined by the “angle” parameter. Vector : Warps along a vector direction as defined by the rgb value of the second input shading node. this is particularly useful when a normal map is used as a warp input.
Warp Amount	The warp amount.
Warp Amount 2	The warp amount in the second axis, when used with the vector warp mode.
Angle	The angle of direction for the warp when used with the directional warp mode.
Preview In Viewport	Passes this node’s output to the destination material as a colour channel, so it can be previewed more easily.

Inputs

Name	Description	Typical Input
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