2D Generator
The part of a 2D layer that generates the image
This category groups generators of 2D images.Those generators are at the core of 2D Layer, since they generate the source image , i.e. the image on which subsequent modifiers and renderer will operate.
Most 2D Generators are either file-based generators ( Image Layer, Video File), or procedural generators ( e.g. Uniform, Linear Gradient and Noise layer) and some other generators such as Video Input.
Here is the full list of generator categories:
- Compo: Can contain many layers and has the same behavior as a layer (resolution / ratio)
- File-based generators: External files. Create them in the tree by drag and dropping files (absent from creation menu)
- Generators based on functions: Use Function to generate images
- Gradient generators: Use color gradients to generate images
- Lens Flare: A versatile lens flare generator with a few presets to start
- Procedural Noise generators: Pretty obvious name
- Shader-based generators: Procedural shaders such as Checker Board or Brick
- 2D Text: I don't remember what that is, sorry you'll have to test by yourself
CATALOG
File-based generators:
Image Layer - Generate a still image
Exr Image Layer - Referenced Exr File
Video File - Generate an animated image by playing a video file. Play it either with it's Transport or from a Timeline (by drag n dropping the layer inside it)
Cube Map File - Generate an image from a Cube Map
Reference - Reference a compo in another compo
Substance layer - Extract one layer from a .sbsar Substance material
Gradient generators:
Gradient - Generate a gradient parameterized by a shape and color gradient
Linear Gradient - This generator creates a linear gradient (by default from black to white), from top to bottom
Radial Gradient - This generator creates a linear gradient (by default from black to white), in a circle from the center to the edges of the layer
N-Points Gradient - Create gradient from multiple points
Procedural Noise generators:
Noise layer - Generate a possibly animated noise image
White Noise layer - Generate a White Noise
Shader-based generators:
Uniform - Generate a solid, uniform image, filled with a unique color
Checker Board - Generate a checkerboard
Brick - Generate a brick pattern
Mandelbrot Fractals - Generate a Mandelbrot fractal
Dots - Generate a dot grid
Shader Generator - Create your own shader with mathematical beautifulness in OpenGL Shading Language through the Shader Editor
Shader Toy Generator - Copy past your favourite shader from ShaderToy to the smode Shader Editor. Seems like a dream ? Well....it's Smode...
ISF Generator - Use Interactive Shader Format (ISF) files or code them into Smode to create your own effects
Generators based on functions:
Function Curve - Generate a gradient curve from a function
Radial Function - Display a radial shape defined by a Function
Lens flare generator:
Lens Flare - A bright light (optical aberration effect)
Text Generator:
2D Text - Generate a text image with custom colors, font and justification.
Signal Testing:
Glitch - Generate alternating black and white frames
Test Pattern - Generate a Test Pattern
Texture retrieval from inputs:
Video Input - Extract the image from a Video Input Device
Parent Input layer - Use the video/image used as Input of it's parent modifier
Composition:
Compo - Composite 2D Layer, Shape layer and 3D Layer together. [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [N] to create a new composition after opening Smode