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Animating Textures

Before reading this page, you should know about Blender’s textures – if not, read this chapter first!

In Blender, texture animation mainly concerns procedural ones. The only properties that can be useful for pictures/videos are the color/luminosity/contrast ones. Hence, you’ll seldom use these Ipos than others (like e.g. material ones)!

Unfortunately, there is no Ipo to control the timing of video textures!

Also remember that all mapping properties are gathered in the Material (and Lamp and World) Ipo types…

Finally, remember that textures using nodes can also be animated with Time input nodes…

Options

Note that the texture Ipo curves are always present, even when the related texture does not use them.

NSize

This controls the noise size of most procedural textures (value ranges in [0.0, 2.0]).

NDepth

This controls the noise depth of some procedural textures (value ranges in [0, 6], and is integer only).

NType

This controls the noise type of some procedural textures, between soft (value below 1.0) and hard (value above 1.0).

Turb

This controls the turbulence of some procedural textures (value ranges in [0.0, 200.0]).

Vnw1, Vnw2, Vnw3, Vnw4

These curves control the four weights (W1, W2, etc.) of the Voronoi texture (values range in [-2.0, 2.0]).

MinkMEx

This controls the Minkovsky exponent of Voronoi textures using the Minkovsky distance metric (value ranges in [0.01, 10.0]).

ColT

This controls the color type of Voronoi textures (below 1 for Int, between 1 and 2 for Col1, etc.).

DistM

This controls the distance metric of Voronoi textures (below 1 for Actual Distance, between 1 and 2 for Distance Squared, etc.).

iScale

This controls the intensity scale factor of Voronoi and Musgrave textures (value ranges in [0.01, 10.0]).

DistA

This controls the amount of distortion of DistortedNoise textures (value ranges in [0.0, 10.0]).

MgType

This controls the type of Musgrave textures (below 1 for Multifractal, between 1 and 2 for Ridged Multifractal, etc.).

MgH

This controls the highest fractal dimension (H property) of Musgrave textures (value ranges in [0.0, 2.0]).

Lacu

This controls the lacuna between successive frequencies for Musgrave textures (value ranges in [0.0, 6.0]).

Oct

This controls the number of frequencies used by Musgrave textures (value ranges in [0.0, 8.0]).

MgOff

This controls the fractal offset (Ofst property) of Ridged Multifractal, Hybrid Multifractal, or Hetero Terrain Musgrave textures (value ranges in [0.0, 6.0]).

MgGain

This controls the gain multiplier of Ridged Multifractal or Hybrid Multifractal Musgrave textures (value ranges in [0.0, 6.0]).

NBase1, NBase2

These curves control the noise basis of most procedural textures (only the DistortedNoise ones use the second noise basis, though). Values below 1 for Blender Original, between 1 and 2 for Original Perlin, etc.

ColR, ColG, ColB

These curves control the color tweaking parameters of the texture (in the Colors panel, values range in [0.0, 2.0]).

Bright

This controls the luminosity parameter of the texture (value ranges in [0.0, 2.0]).

Contras

This controls the contrast parameter of the texture (value ranges in [0.0, 5.0]).