Any way to randomize input pattern parameters?
polycounter lvl 8
I'm working on a blocky cliff wall that uses tile samplers to place my blocky boulders in a pattern. What I'm trying to achieve now is to have certain boulders cracked. I've been investigating two approaches so far:
1) Use a directional warp. I saw this trick in Josh Lynch' herringbone pattern tutorial. You plug in your cracks as the input and then a mask of your herringbone pattern into the intensity and this breaks up the cracks evenly in a nice way. This technique however requires a mask that is very flat with no gradients. I have been unable to produce that in my substance.
2) Put the crack in my boulder generator itself. The boulder generator is plugged in as a pattern input in the tile sampler. The problem with this is that all the boulders plugged into say, pattern input 1, will exhibit cracks and the exact same crack.
1) Use a directional warp. I saw this trick in Josh Lynch' herringbone pattern tutorial. You plug in your cracks as the input and then a mask of your herringbone pattern into the intensity and this breaks up the cracks evenly in a nice way. This technique however requires a mask that is very flat with no gradients. I have been unable to produce that in my substance.
2) Put the crack in my boulder generator itself. The boulder generator is plugged in as a pattern input in the tile sampler. The problem with this is that all the boulders plugged into say, pattern input 1, will exhibit cracks and the exact same crack.
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