Advanced Node Reference

The Advanced Studio contains 67 safe node types. The node palette is generated from the same catalogue used by the TextEffect plugin.

Categories

• Input Nodes
• Math Nodes
• Random and Noise Nodes
• Vector Nodes
• Colour Nodes
• Texture Nodes
• Output Nodes

Value types

Type	Description
float	One number
vec2	Two numbers, normally X/Y or UV
vec3	Three numbers, normally RGB

Shader stages

Stage	Description
Shared	Can be compiled for fragment or vertex output paths
Fragment	Available to colour, opacity, brightness and texture effects
Vertex	Available to movement outputs

Performance cost

Low-cost nodes use simple values or maths. Medium-cost nodes include procedural random and noise work. High-cost nodes sample glyph texture pixels.

The graph validator limits the number of random, texture and high-cost nodes that can be used in one effect.