Warp

modifier.warp · Filters · Mask-aware

Domain warp: pushes the height layer sideways by a noise field so straight features wander and regular shapes turn natural.

Purpose

Adds meandering irregularity to features that look too regular or machine-made. Warp displaces the terrain sideways rather than up, so it changes the shape of features without changing their height.

Inputs

• in
• mask (optional)

Outputs

• out

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Range	Default	Unit	Description	Field-driven
Amount (amount)	float	[0, 100000]	50	m		no
Wavelength (wavelength)	float	[0, 100000]	512	m	The distance from one crest to the next, in world units. On a noise generator it is the size of the largest features.	no
Octaves (octaves)	int	[1, 12]	4		The number of noise layers summed together; more octaves add finer detail.	no
Seed (seed)	int	[0, 2147483647]	0		The random seed; changing it regenerates a different variation of the same pattern.	no

Layer contract

Honours a mask on its input, applying everywhere the mask is absent.

Behaviour

Wire the optional mask input to confine the warp to a selection: the displacement scales by the mask, so a Curvature selection of the ridgelines jitters only the ridges while the rest holds still. Where the mask is zero the terrain passes through unwarped, and a partial mask eases the warp in.

Wavelength is the warp field's own feature size, in world units: how far apart the swirls sit, as against amount, which is how far each one pushes. Both are real sizes, so a warp keeps its character when the world extent changes.