Neat material warping (with animation and node setup)

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Here’s a neat feature I found out just recently and decided to try it out real quick:

material_warp.png512×512 145 KB


Here’s the node setup:
material_warp_NODES.png1599×411 89.5 KB

The key is inputting the color of the procedural texture into the vector input of another texture. That will warp it accordingly. I find it strange that it works that way. I wonder if it takes color input differently than just “RGB->XYZ”?

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Oh that’s like raindrops on water… can be useful… grabbing that. Thanks henrymop. I think it works naturally because generated coordinates go from 0 to 1 and so do rgb colors.