Basic

Controls which of the following patterns is used. The scale of each pattern's shape is based on the light intensity on the surface.

Halftone - Creates a pattern made up of dots of varying sizes. By default, large dots are mapped to shaded areas and small dots to bright areas.

Sine Wave - Creates a pattern made up of sine waves of varying thicknesses. By default, thick sine waves are mapped to shaded areas and thin sine waves to bright areas.

Grid - Creates a pattern made up of squares of varying sizes. By default, large squares are mapped to shaded areas and small squares to bright areas.

Cross Hatch - Creates a pattern made up of short pencil strokes to simulate the appearance of traditional cross hatch shading. By default, dark pencil strokes are mapped to shaded areas and light strokes to bright areas.

Custom - Creates a tiled pattern made up of a custom texture connected to the Pattern Color port. By default, large tiles are mapped to shaded areas and small tiles to bright areas. Random variation per-tile becomes available when this mode is used.

Pattern: Halftone	Sine Wave	Grid	Cross Hatch

The Custom Pattern expects a square texture with an alpha texture which is used to overlap the tiles on top of other tiles. The following examples were created with a custom texture and different randomization values. Any texture can be used but in general the custom texture works best with geometric patterns at a small overall scale.

Custom Texture: Crescent Star	Random Triangles	Random Dots	Random color hatches

Controls the color that is generally responsible for the dark portions of the shading. Textures can be used here to interesting effect, you can even use the same texture for Pattern Color and Background Color but with different brightness levels or hue offsets in order to differentiate them.

The shading implied by the Tonemap Pattern is dependent on having two contrasting colors for Pattern Color and Background Color. If both colors are the same then no pattern is visible.

Pattern Color: Blue	Red	Tiles Texture	Animated Black to White

Controls the color that is responsible for the bright portions of the shading. Textures can be used as well.

The shading implied by the Tonemap Pattern is dependent on having two contrasting colors for Pattern Color and Background Color. If both colors are the same then no pattern will be visible.

Background Color: Light Blue	Light Yellow	Tiles Texture	Animated Black to White

Controls the overall size of the pattern, this is multiplied with the Intensity Override input.

Scale: 1	2	Animated Texture

Controls the width of the pattern in the X direction. Note that width of the pattern is dependent on the rotation of the pattern.

Controls the height of the pattern. Note that height of the pattern is dependent on the rotation of the pattern.

Rotates the pattern in image space.

Rotation: 0	45	90

Moves the pattern horizontally in screen space. Higher values offset the pattern more than lower values, this can also be driven by a texture.

When using the cross hatch pattern, you can create the illusion of unique hand drawn frames by changing the offset value by a large amount every few frames — the jitter shader's float output with an animated seed value is a good tool for this effect.

Offset X: -2 to +2	Textured with tile shader	Jitter every 5 frames

Moves the pattern vertically in screen space. Higher values offset the pattern more than lower values, this can also be driven by a texture.

Offset Y: -2 to +2	Textured with tile shader

This input overrides the scale of the pattern, connect a ramp here to directly control how the scale of the pattern changes based on the lighting in the scene. Dark colors increase the scale of the pattern while bright colors decrease the scale of the pattern.

In a common setup, a horizontal ramp is used to control the scale of the pattern from darkest (largest scale) on the left to brightest (smallest scale) on the right. However, you can remap the scale of the pattern in any way you like, including bringing what is traditionally the dark color (Pattern Color) into the brightest parts of the lighting as seen in the Stylized Ramp example below. Additionally, the pattern scale does not have to be based solely on light intensity with a ramp, using a texture will also control the size of the pattern and this can be layered together with a ramp as seen in the last two examples.

Intensity Override: Default (Linear Transition)	Stepped Ramp	Stylized Ramp	Animated Ramp	Texture with Ramp

Controls each tile's starting scale. Higher values increase the size of each tile relative to their starting size.

Note that the scale can be set so high that the pattern clips with neighboring tiles instead of overlapping with them. The maximum value that can be used before clipping depends on your custom texture, like how much of the texture space is used up by your custom pattern and how much the pattern is offset from its original starting position.

In the example below take note of how each tile stays centered in the same location and scales up and down. This is different than the General Scale parameter which scales the entire tiling pattern.