Kaleidoscope add-on is a small package of nodes for Blender. These nodes allow you to make your scene more realistic and accurate to the real world.
The Spectrum Node is designed for providing you with infinite color palettes and manage them directly in Blender. It comes with a ton of rules to generate pleasing palettes. You can even publish your palettes so that users using the add-on can access them. There is even more features, which I have explained in the video.
The Intensity Node is a collection of pre-defined values that can be used to make your materials and lighting more accurate.
Both these nodes can be animated, and have built in syncing functionality to transfer all your saved palettes and values to another system automatically.
I like the idea very much.
But IMHO it could be improved a bitā¦
The UI could be simplifiedā¦ I think it has too much options.
Another thing I would change is the output colorsā¦ I personally would prefer to have just one color output, and add a factor input to choose which color to output (a bit as the ColorRamp node). This could help to output much more colors, even gradients, with a smaller and practical node.
And in the IOR node, I would (this is only a perfectionism ) change the āGlass IORā to just āIORā. I mean, āGlass IORā and āWaterā are a strange combination.
If you need some help, just ask. As I said, these are very usefull nodes, great job!
I know the UI is a bit complicated, but I have simplified as much as I couldā¦ used icons for some options as well. Will see if it can be improved more.
With one Color output and having gradients and stuff, the node would nearly become a ColorRamp node. And you can use the ColorRamp node with Spectrum as well. (It would be hard (or maybe impossible) to code a Gradient Controller like that)
Actually, I meant āGlass IORā to be Glass Shader IOR valueā¦ but I think I would make it āIORā since IOR for different substances is a constant value.
Keep suggesting new ideas for improvements to this add-on
Color Picker would allow you to sample colors from any image inside Blender, and use those colors in proportion in a ColorRamp. To try it out, the latest master branch of GitHub repo of this add-on can be downloaded.
Seems like a great addon. I like the amount of options in the UI. However, I seem to be experiencing a small problems. I have the main palette node inside a group with multiple color outputs, which then hook into my various materials, so that I can control all my colors from one convenient group. When using it like this, hooking up the different outputs of the palette doesnāt seem to work. The color I get when I render is the color set in the Group Output Node, not the colors from the actual palette Iāve generated with Kaleidoscope. Any ideas what could be causing this, and how to fix?
Since the Spectrum Node is global for every scene, you donāt need to have it in a node group to control all the colors. If Spectrum node in one material is updated, other Spectrum Nodes in different materials too are updated.
However, while trying it in a Node Group, I found out that add-on is not compatible with node groups currently. Probably I will try to add this feature in a future update.
When one of the colors in the spectrum reaches red (when you change the hue) , it doesnāt shift further. I think in the code you have to put something like [in pseudocode: if color reaches 360, substract 360 ] . Nice addon. Is there a way we can add more colors per set?
Actually, that is a problem I am yet to fix in the add-on. It would take some time, and the issue is already there on GitHub. Probably I will try to fix it in the next update.
Unfortunately, now the add-on allows only 5 colors per set and there is no way to expand it.
) change the āGlass IORā to just āIORā. I mean, āGlass IORā and āWaterā are a strange combination.
