Transforms provide control over the texture map placement on object surfaces. Most projection and generator nodes offer similar controls, but the Transform nodes provide an additional level of control for texture placement. The values in a Transform node are multiplied by the identical values in a projection or generator node. The Transform nodes can also be used to control geometry object placement in a scene. The Transform nodes can be accesses by right-clicking in the Node Graph Editor and going to the Transforms menu item (Figure 1).


Transform Nodes


Figure 1: Accessing the Transforms list in the Node Graph Editor

 

Transforms are often paired with a projection node in order to place a texture map on an object's surface (Figure 2).


Transform with Projection Node

Figure 2: A 3D Transform node paired with a Box projection to orient a Checks texture