blur nodes

[wcy93]

is it possible to get a blur render node in maya? y'know like a gaussian blur node. this would be really useful to have if you could connect things like sampler info into a blur node so that you could control blurring of a texture based on whatever you want...

[deke-kincaid]

All file textures have blurs in maya. Look under the attribute editor for the file texture and it is called filter. By default it is set to Mipmapping, but you can change it to Quad, Guassian and a couple others. Then just play with the filter and filter offset to adjust the strength of the blur on the file texture.

Deke Kincaid
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deke@littlegreenmenstudios.com

[wcy93]

yeah, but it would be great to have a blur node available for any texture node. like if I waned to blur a procedural.

although I guess I could always have a blank image, and map a procedural into color gain, and then map filter that way. that would effectively be a blur node... hmmmmm, cool, didn't think of that. thanks.

[cheeko8080]

Blurring a procedural texture in many cases would be ungodly slow unless you first convert it to a bitmap, which of course means losing many advantages of a procedural texture.

• Neil

[wcy93]

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Blurring a procedural texture in many cases would be ungodly slow unless you first convert it to a bitmap, which of
- Neil

yeah, thats true I guess. hadn't really thought about that. good point, thanks for that.