Introduction – Вступ

The Texture Type list in the Texture panel of the Texture buttons. (Non-procedural textures darkened out.)

Procedural textures are textures that are defined mathematically. They are generally relatively simple to use, because they do not need to be mapped in a special way. This does not mean that procedural textures cannot become very complex.

These types of textures are „real“ 3D. By that we mean that they fit together perfectly at the edges and continue to look like what they are meant to look like even when they are cut; as if a block of wood had really been cut in two. Procedural textures are not filtered or anti-aliased. This is hardly ever a problem: the user can easily keep the specified frequencies within acceptable limits.

Загальні Опції – Common Options

Базис Шуму – Noise Basis

Each noise-based Blender texture (except Voronoi and Simple Noise) has a Noise Basis setting that allows the user to select which algorithm is used to generate the texture. This list includes the original Blender noise algorithm. The Noise Basis settings makes the procedural textures extremely flexible (especially Musgrave).

Базис Шуму – Noise Basis управляє структурним виглядом текстури:

Оригінал Blender’а – Blender Original.	Вороний F1 – Voronoi F1.	Вороний F2-F1 – Voronoi F2-F1.
Оригінал Перліна – Original Perlin.	Вороний F2 – Voronoi F2.	Тріск Вороного – Voronoi Crackle.
Покращення Перліна – Improved Perlin.	Вороний F3 – Voronoi F3.	Шум Комірки – Cell Noise.
Вороний F4 – Voronoi F4.

Існують дві можливі устави для Noise Basis, які відносно схожі на Blender Original: Improved Perlin та Original Perlin.

Набла – Nabla

Almost all procedural textures in Blender use derivatives for calculating normals for texture mapping (except Blend and Magic). This is important for Normal and Displacement Maps. The strength of the effect is controlled with the Nabla number field.

Hints – Поради

Procedural textures can either produce colored textures, intensity only textures, textures with alpha values and normal textures. If intensity only ones are used the result is a black-and-white texture, which can be greatly enhanced by the use of ramps. If on the other hand you use ramps and need an intensity value, you have to switch on No RGB in the Mapping panel.