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Use Color Utilities

Use Color Utilities

Use the Clamp colors utility

 

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Use the Blend Colors utility

For a description of the Blend Colors utility, see Blend Colors.

Try the following to get an idea of how this utility works.

To blend colors using the Blend Color utility

1. Create the following—Checker (2D textures), Wood (3D textures), Blend Colors (Color Utilities), and a Lambert material.

   

2. Ctrl+middle+drag the Checker swatch over the Blend Colors swatch.

   The Connection Editor appears.

3. Click to connect the Checker’s Out Color to the Blend Color’s Color1 node.

   

4. Ctrl+middle-drag the Wood texture swatch over the Blend Color swatch, and in the Connection Editor, connect the Wood’s Out Color to Blend Color’s Color2 node.

   

5. Middle-drag the Blend Color swatch over the Lambert material swatch and select color from the pop-up menu.

   

   The result is a blend between the wood and checker textures. In the Blend Color’s Attribute editor, when you adjust the Blender slider towards 1, more of the checker texture appears and when you adjust the Blender slider towards 0, more of the wood texture appears.