The Field nodes are essentially 3D gradients that can be used to control the output value of many different data/node types in Octane (figure 1).


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Figure 1: The four field types used in conjunction with a 4-color gradient


The four field types available are:

    • Angular - Similar to the angular gradient but has additional options to map the angle to the gradient value
    • Planar - Similar to the linear gradient but with a finite mapping
    • Shape - Maps the distance between Vectron/SDF objects
    • Spherical - Maps the distance of the origin in UVW space to a (clamped) gradient value