Texture

BrickTexture

Procedural texture producing Bricks

Cycles BrickTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• Color1: Brick Color #1
• Color2: Brick Color #2
• Mortar: Mortar color
• Scale: Overall texture scale
• Mortar Size: The Mortar size; 0 means no Mortar
• Bias: The color variation between the brick colors. Values of -1 and 1 only use one of the two colors; values in between mix the colors.
• Brick Width: The width of the bricks
• Row Height: The height of the brick rows
• Offset: Brick offset of the various rows.
• Offset Frequency: Frequency of the offset. A value of 2 gives an even/uneven pattern of rows.
• Squash: Amount of brick squashing.
• Squash Frequency: Frequency of brick squashing.

Outputs:

• Color: Texture color output
• Fac: Mortar mask (1 = mortar)

CheckerTexture

Checkerboard texture.

Cycles CheckerTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• Color1: First checkerboard color.
• Color2: Second checkerboard color.
• Scale: Overall texture scale

Outputs:

• Color: Texture color output
• Fac: Checker 1 mask (1 = Checker 1)

EnvironmentTexture

Used to light your scene using an environment map image file as a texture.

Cycles EnvironmentTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• Projection: Choose the type of texture projection you want to use for the material.
  • Equirectangular: Uses XY coordinates.
  • Mirror Ball: Uses spherical mapping.
• Image: Click to choose the texture that you want to use.

Outputs:

• Color: RGB color from the image.
• Alpha: Alpha output from the image. If the image has no alpha channel, output is white.

GradientTexture

A gradient texture based on an input vector.

Cycles GradientTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• Type:
  • Point: (TBD)
  • Normal: (TBD)
  • Texture: (TBD)
  • Vector: (TBD)

Outputs:

• Color: Texture color output.
• Fac: Texture intensity output.

ImageTexture

The Image Texture is used to add an image file as a texture.

Cycles ImageTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• Color Space: The type of data that the image contains
  • __builtin_srgb: Most color textures and final renders are stored in sRGB format. 
  • __builtin_raw: Select RAW for images that do not contain colors (grayscale images such as bump, opacity, specular, etc), or for Normal maps. 
• Projection: Choose the type of texture projection you want to use for the material.
  • Flat: Uses the XY coordinates for mapping.
  • Box: Projects texture onto 6 sides of a virtual cube.
  • Tube: Maps the tube to a sphere, using the Z axis as the center.
  • Sphere: Uses spherical mapping using the Z axis as the center.
• Extension: Extension defines how the image is extrapolated past the original bounds:
  • Periodic: (Repeat in Cycles) Will repeat the image horizontally and vertically giving tiled-looking result.
  • Clamp: (Clip in Cycles)) Clip to the original image size and set all the exterior pixels values to transparent black.
  • Black: (Extend in Cycles) Will extend the image by repeating pixels on its edges.
  • Mirror: Mirrors the image horizontally and vertically, giving seamless result.
• Interpolation:
  • Closest: No interpolation, use only closest pixel for rendering pixel art.
  • Linear: Regular quality interpolation.
  • Smart: Only for Open Shading Language. Use cubic interpolation when scaling up and linear when scaling down, for a better performance and sharpness.
  • Cubic: Smoother, better quality interpolation. For bump maps this should be used to get best results.
• Image: Click to choose the texture that you want to use.

Outputs:

• Color: Texture color output.
• Alpha: Alpha output.

MagicTexture

Creates a psychedelic color texture.

Cycles MagicTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• Scale: Number of iterations
• Distortion: Amount of distortion.
• Depth: Depth of the effect:

Outputs:

• Color: Texture color output
• Fac: Texture intensity output

MusgraveTexture

Advanced procedural noise texture. May need some adjustments (multiplication and addition) in order to see more detail.

NOTE: This texture node has been replaced in Cycles by the NoiseTexture node.

Cycles MusgraveTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• W: Texture coordinate to evaluate the noise at.
• Scale: Overall texture scale.
• Detail: Amount of noise detail.
• Dimension: The difference between the magnitude of each two consecutive octaves. Larger values corresponds to smaller magnitudes for higher octaves.
• Lacunarity: The difference between the scale of each two consecutive octaves. Larger values corresponds to larger scale for higher octave.
• Offset: An added offset to each octave, determines the level where the highest octave will appear.
• Gain:An extra multiplier to tune the magnitude of octaves.
• Type: Choose multifractal, fBM, hybrid_multifractal, ridged_multifractal, or hetero_terrain.

• Dimensions:  Choose 1D, 2D, 3D, or 4D.

Outputs:

• Fac: Texture intensity output.

NoiseTexture

Procedural Perlin noise texture that produces a cloud pattern.

Cycles NoiseTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• W: Texture coordinate to evaluate the noise at.
• Scale: Overall texture scale
• Detail: Number of noise octaves. The fractional part of the input is multiplied by the magnitude of the highest octave. Higher number of octaves corresponds to a higher render time.
• Roughness: Blend between a smoother noise pattern, and rougher with sharper peaks.
• Distortion: Amount of distortion.
• Dimensions: Choose 1D, 2D, 3D, or 4D.

Outputs:

• Fac: Value of fractal noise.
• Color: Color with different fractal noise in each component.

SkyTexture

Procedural Sky texture for backgrounds.

Cycles SkyTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• Sky Type: Sky model to use. Preetham or Hosek / Wilkie
• Turbidity: A value that defines the amount of humidity in the atmosphere. Lower values result in clearer skies. Higher values make sky more hazy.  A value of 2 produces a clear sky. A value of 10 produces a hazy sky.
• Ground Albedo: The amount of light reflected from the ground
• Sun Direction: The sun direction vector. Enter three values in X, Y, and Z positions respectively.

Outputs:

• Color: Texture color output.

VoronoiTexture

Procedural texture producing Voronoi cells

Cycles VoronoiTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• W: Texture coordinate to evaluate the noise at.
• Scale: Scale of the noise.
• Smoothness: The smoothness of the noise. Higher values blur the noise.
• Exponent: Exponent of the Minkowski distance metric. Lower values create more variance. Higher values reduce variance.
• Randomness: The randomness of the noise. Increase values to create more randomness.
• Dimensions:
  • 1D: Evaluate the noise in 1D space at the input W.
  • 2D: Evaluate the noise in 2D space at the input Vector. The Z component is ignored.
  • 3D: Evaluate the noise in 3D space at the input Vector.
  • 4D: Evaluate the noise in 4D space at the input Vector and the input W as the fourth dimension.
• Distance Metric: The distance metric used to compute the texture. Options are Euclidean, Manhattan, Chebychev, and Minkowski. 
• Feature: The Voronoi feature that the node will compute and return.
  • F1: Compute and return the distance to the closest feature point as well as its position and color.
  • F2: Compute and return the distance to the second closest feature point as well as its position and color.
  • Smooth F1: Compute and return a smooth version of F1.
  • Distance to Edge: Compute and return the distance to the edges of the Voronoi cells.
  • Z-Sphere Radius: Compute and return the radius of the n-sphere inscribed in the Voronoi cells. In other words, it is half the distance between the closest feature point and the feature point closest to it.

Outputs:

• Distance: Distance.
• Color: Cell color. The color is arbitrary.
• Position: Position of feature point.
• W: Position of feature point.
• Radius: N-Sphere radius.

WaveTexture

Procedural bands or rings texture with noise distortion

Cycles WaveTexture node.

Inputs:

• Vector: Texture coordinate to sample texture at. If the socket is left unconnected, this defaults to Generated texture coordinates.
• Scale: Overall texture scale
• Distortion: Amount of distortion of the wave (similar to the Marble texture in Blender Internal)
• Detail: Amount of distortion noise detail
• Detail Scale: Scale of distortion noise
• Detail Roughness: Blend between a smoother noise pattern, and rougher with sharper peaks.
• Phase Offset: Position of the wave along the Bands Direction. This can be used as an input for more control over the distortion.
• Type: Point, Normal, Texture, or Vector
• Bands Direction: The axis the bands propagate from i.e. which axis they are perpendicular to. When using Bands a Diagonal axis is an option.
• Rings Direction: The axis the rings propagate from i.e. which axis they are perpendicular to. When using Rings the rings can propagate outwards from a single point by using Spherical direction
• Profile: Saw produces a sawtooth profile. Sine uses standard sine profile. Tri produces a blended gradient profile.

Outputs:

• Color: Texture color output
• Fac: Texture intensity output