Texture
Texture
Every Texture operator — loaders, compositing, transforms, colour, displacement, and conversion — in one reference.
Texture operators take one or more textures in and give one out. They sit between generators and the Output node, and they are where most of a patch's work happens.
Press Tab in the node graph and open the Texture tab to browse them. The family is one flat list in the palette; the grouping below is for reading, not something the app shows.
Loading
| Operator | What it does | Key parameters |
|---|---|---|
| Load Image | Loads a still image from a dropped file or an http(s) URL and fits it to the frame. | Image, Image URL, Fit Mode, Scale |
| Load Video | Plays a video file or image sequence with in and out points. | Video / Sequence, Speed, Loop Mode, In/Out Point |
| Load SVG | Parses an SVG into polylines and rasterizes them into a lookup texture. | SVG, Output Mode, Sample Step |
Combining
| Operator | Inputs | What it does | Key parameters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blend | A, B, … (grows) | Stacks every wired input bottom-up, each with its own blend mode and opacity. A is the base. | Blend Mode, Opacity per port |
| Composite | Background, Foreground, Mask | Combines two images with one of 27 placement, arithmetic, and HSL operations, gated by the Mask. | Operation |
| Composite → Mask Mix | Background, Foreground, Mask | The one operation where the Mask is the operation: white picks the Foreground, black picks the Background, grey mixes them. With no Mask wired it sits at a flat 50/50. | Operation |
| Pattern Mix | A, B | Uses a procedural pattern as the mask choosing between A and B. | Pattern Type, Scale, Thickness |
| Shape Mask | A, B, Mask Image | Chooses between A and B using an SDF shape, or the wired mask's luminance. | Shape, Radius, Edge Smooth |
| Shadow / Glow | A, B | Thresholds one input into a silhouette, offsets and blurs it, and lays it under the other. | Mask Source, Shadow Color, Offset X/Y, Blur |
| Switch | Input 0–3 | Passes through whichever input Index selects. | Index |
Blend and Composite are not two names for the same thing. Blend is a growing bottom-up stack. Composite is a fixed Background / Foreground / Mask operation with a 27-entry menu — and in that menu only Over and Under do real alpha compositing; the rest flatten both alphas and do raw RGB maths.
Transforming
| Operator | What it does | Key parameters |
|---|---|---|
| Transform | Translates, scales, and rotates about a pivot, with repeat, mirror, or clamp edges. | Translate X/Y, Uniform Scale, Rotation, Mode |
| Tile | Repeats the image in an X × Y grid, optionally mirroring alternate tiles. | Tiles X, Tiles Y, Mirror |
| Flip | Flips on X and/or Y. | Flip X, Flip Y |
| Mirror | Reflects one half onto the other across a movable seam. | Axis, Offset |
| Crop | Selects a sub-rectangle and rescales it to the full frame. | Left, Right, Bottom, Top |
| Resolution | Re-evaluates the whole upstream chain at a given pixel size, then letterboxes it back. | Width, Height, Filter |
Resolution does not resample its input. It re-runs everything upstream at the size you set, which is how you render a detailed sub-chain at high resolution and then place it.
Colour and levels
| Operator | What it does | Key parameters |
|---|---|---|
| Color Correction Suite | A full grade — exposure, gamma, saturation, hue, temperature, curves, look LUT — applied to HDR values before tone mapping. | Exposure, Gamma, Saturation, Curves |
| Level | Brightness, contrast, gamma, and a black/white clamp, with optional invert. | Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, Clamp Low/High |
| HSV Adjust | Rotates hue, multiplies saturation and value. | Hue, Saturation, Value |
| Invert | Inverts RGB. | — |
| Recolor | Maps luminance between two colours. | Dark Color, Light Color |
| Threshold | Outputs a solid black-and-white mask by comparison or a band. | Comparator, Threshold, Band Width, Soften |
| Quantize | Snaps values onto a step grid, and optionally snaps sample positions too. | Quantize Value, Value Step, Position Step X/Y |
| Lookup | Remaps colours through a colour table taken from a .cube file, an ordinary PNG lookup image, or a wired texture. | Mode, CUBE File, LUT Image, Strength |
| Channel Shuffle | Rewrites each output channel from any source channel, luminance, 0, or 1. | Red, Green, Blue, Alpha |
| Ramp | Generates a multi-stop gradient, and emits an animated 0→1 value on the same port. | Direction, Start/End, Anim Speed |
Displacement and surface
| Operator | Inputs | What it does | Key parameters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Displace | Input, Displace Map | Offsets sample positions by the map's luminance, RG, or normal vector. | Amount, Method |
| Noise Displace | Input | Offsets sample positions by internally generated noise. | Amount, Scale, Speed, Noise |
| Normal Map | Input | Converts a luminance heightfield into a tangent-space normal map. | Depth, Light X, Light Y |
| Bump Map | Input | Runs the same derivation, then shades it with a light. The output is a lit relief image. | Depth, Light X/Y, Specular |
| Blur | Input | Separable gaussian, box, or directional blur. | Radius, Type, Angle |
| Feedback | Input | Blends the input with the previous frame's own output after decay and a transform. | Previous Frame Feedback, Blend Mode, Scale |
Bump Map does not output a bump map. It outputs a lit relief image. Use Normal Map when you want normals to feed a 3D material or another operator.
Vector
| Operator | Inputs | What it does | Key parameters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vectorizer | Input | Contour-traces a thresholded mask and rasterizes a lookup texture holding path index, arc distance, and tangent. | Output Mode, Threshold, Smoothing |
| Fill Trace | Reveal Lookup | Progressively reveals each traced part over time, for a draw-in effect. | Mode, Sequence, Duration, Progress |
Fill Trace must be fed a Vectorizer or Load SVG lookup in a Reveal mode, not a raw image. The Vectorizer's output is data, not a picture — previewing it in Stroke or Reveal mode looks wrong on purpose. Only its Fill mode is a viewable mask.
Organising
Null passes its input through unchanged. Use it as a tidy junction so several consumers read from one wire.