Local texture/shader blending

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Welcome,

I made myself a DA dealing with locally morphing geometry based on a distance from a locator. I just used a custom attribute, which value was dependent on a centroid of a locator, then imported this attribute into a VOP SOP and used a little bit of math to get a falloff distribution outwards the locator point, and blend between source and target geometry.

Now, how to do the same for locally blending shaders/ textures ( I am not very experienced at VOP materials)? I cannot import attribute here, from what I see I can get attribute values by referencing a file on disk, not a node directly. How about making a digital asset for locally morphing textures then? Maybe I am looking in a wrong place?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

[edward]

Do you just want to locally blend with fall off between two texture images? For that, you just use the Texture VOPs to sample two images dependent on your current uv position. Then mix the two output values as you see fit.

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Yes, this is one thing I want to be able to do. The other is to to exact same blendin,g but on shaders, not only textures. Thank you for help, I will try Texture VOP.

Best regards!

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Welcome,

I inspected UV Texture and UV Position OPs and must say that I still don't know how to use them - documentation is really poor, examples sparse, and some parameters names unclear. Uncle Google was not of much help. Could anyone share an example network / tutorial showing these nodes in action? I remind that I am looking for a way to blend two textures/ shaders on a local basis, based on a distance from a given point.

Thank you in advance

[eetu]

Here's a simple example:

ee_proximity_morph_texture_blend.hip

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Thank you very much!