Mutable for Unreal Engine | Texture Layer Node

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Function

Combine multiple textures into one.

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Use Cases

Create a cloth pattern with independently modifiable colors mixed

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Node Properties

Layers (array): Add one for each texture to blend to the base texture.
Effect (array element blend mode dropdown): Blend mode that is used to mix this layer with the rest. It's applied to the result of blending the previous layers with the base texture. Layers with smaller indexes are blended first.

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Input Pins

Layer (index): Texture or color that is blended with the effect chosen at the node property with the same index. One appears for each element in the Layers array node property.

Mask (index): This texture controls the zones that are affected by the layer with the same index. White means full effect, black means no effect, grayscale partially applies the layer. One appears for each element in the Layers array node property.
Base: Base texture upon which all layers are applied, from lower index to higher index.

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Output Pins

Image: Texture image resulting of blending all layers, from low index to high index, applying the corresponding effects to each layer limited by the corresponding mask.

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Blending Effects

• COTLE_MODULATE: Blending operation where the base layer gets covered by the blending layer with no color data blending what so ever. It must not be used without a mask since doing so will make the blending image fully cover the base image.

E = M

Only the data of the base layer that gets not covered by the blending layer will show through.

• COTLE_MULTIPLY: This layering effect generates an image darker than the original ones wherever the base image was not black.

E = M * I

• COTLE_SCREEN: This operation produces the inverted result from the COTLE_MULTIPLY layering operation. Wherever either layer was darker than white the output is brighter.

E = 255 - ( 255 - I ) * ( 255 - M )

• COTLE_OVERLAY: It darkens the image but not as much as the COTLE_MULTIPLY layering operation.

E = I * ( I + ( 2 * M * ( 255 - I )))

• COTLE_ALPHA_OVERLAY: Blending effect that does add one image on top of the other using the alpha data on the blending image. Very useful for adding decals to characters or surfaces. As it uses the alpha data of the blending image itself the usage of a mask image is not required.

E = I + M * ( 255 - I )

• COTLE_HARDLIGHT: Useful blending effect if what you are trying to do is to obtain a combined image with bright colors and sharp edges. The effect is more or less noticeable depending on the amount of noise present on the provided images.

If M > 128 then
E = 255 - ( 255 - I ) × ( 255 -2 * ( M - 128 ))

If M <= 128 then
E = I * ( 2 * M )

• COTLE_SOFTLIGHT: This layering effect does tend to make the edges softer and the colors not so bright.

Mix = COTLE_MULTIPLY
Screen = COTLE_SCREEN
E = (( 255 - I ) * Mix ) + ( I * Screen )

• COTLE_DODGE: Produces an image that is usually lighter but might present some colors inverted.

E = I / ( 256 - M )

• COTLE_BURN: This blending effect tends to make the image darker, similar to the COTLE_MULTIPLY layering effect.

E = 255 - ( 255 - I ) / M

• COTLE_NORMAL_COMBINE: Blending method designed to accurately blend normal maps together. It takes into consideration the directionality of the provided normal maps to produce an accurate blend.