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title: "Distortion Shader"
url: "https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/html/XSLADISTORTER.html"
section_path: "Material Manager > Classic Materials > Classic material > Channel Shaders > Distortion Shader"
element_id: "XSLADISTORTER"
description: "Distorter takes the value of an input channel and distorts it using the value from another texture channel."
---

# Distortion Shader

Distorter takes the value of an input channel and distorts it using the value from another texture channel.

![Image: 004422.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/004422.jpg)