Am I doing this right? Are these discontinuities I’m seeing in the simplex noise block? https://nodematerial-editor.babylonjs.com/#ND6Z9D#1 see 5.6 Chapter 5. Implementing Improved Perlin Noise Chapter 5. Implementing Improved Perlin Noise Ken Perlin New York University This chapter focuses on the decisions that I made in designing a new, improved version of my Noise function. I did this redesign for three reasons: (1) to make Noise more...

I’m not sure what the noise node would have to do with this though. Its purely driven by its input, now it is possible different clients might render it with different looks because its procedural but from what I am seeing here I would assume there is something different with the vector3 its sampling.

Is the derivative of the smooth step being used in the simplex noise continuous?

yes yes those are words… hahaha Ok, hold on let me look. Give me a few mins to whip up a test case to see. https://playground.babylonjs.com/#9Z5WJ9 Here are all the axes in a 0-1 range, I’m not sure what derivative you are asking about as there is no smoothstep function in the script. X [image] Y [image] Z [image] I’m not to sure what you are actually asking for to be honest. What specifically is not happening with the node material as a result of using the noise node? Are you trying to create a perturbed normal map from the noise? Sorry just trying to catch up fully and a lot of different questions where asked. If you wanna do some reading on the actual magic in the numbers here is a clip from the code // This is a modified version of Stefan Gustavson's and Ian McEwan's work at http://github.com/ashima/webgl-noise // Modifications are... // - faster random number generation // - analytical final normalization // - space scaled can have an approx feature size of 1.0 // - filter kernel changed to fix discontinuities at tetrahedron boundaries I am merely the messenger sir.

I’m not to sure what you are actually asking for to be honest. What specifically is not happening with the node material as a result of using the noise node? Are you trying to create a perturbed normal map from the noise? Sorry just trying to catch up fully and a lot of different questions where asked. @Pryme8 Yes, I am trying to create a perturbed normal map from the noise. Though it isn’t really a map/texture, the intention is to calculate the perturbed normals on the fly using your Ashima noise. With respect to discontinuities, most noise functions have a lerp/smoothstep function. Depending on how the noise is being used, having a continuous derivative of the lerp/smoothstep function can be important, when trying to avoid artifacts. The choice of interpolating function in each dimension was 3 t 2 - 2 t 3, which contains nonzero values in its second derivative. This can cause visual artifacts when the derivative of noise is taken, such as when doing bump mapping. [image] Chapter 5. Implementing Improved Perlin Noise

I’m not to sure what you are actually asking for to be honest. What specifically is not happening with the node material as a result of using the noise node? Are you trying to create a perturbed normal map from the noise? Sorry just trying to catch up fully and a lot of different questions where asked. @Pryme8 many thanks for the playground derivative check! Starting to think there is something wrong w/ how I am perturbing normals. Any chance I could get an NME example which perturbs normals using the simplex block and the PBR block? Here is my current attempt, which is clearly a failure. Babylon.js Node Material Editor Babylon.js Node material editor - shader-based materials editor for Babylon.js Using color, here is the pattern I’m trying to create bumps from: Babylon.js Node Material Editor Babylon.js Node material editor - shader-based materials editor for Babylon.js Or even a simpler NME example, like the image in Fig. 5-11 below, would be fantastic! [image] Chapter 5. Implementing Improved Perlin Noise

The bump block has “Transform as direction” checked in one case and not in the other case. Thanks @Evgeni_Popov ! It must get reset when I disconnect/reconnect the node, which makes sense.

[image] unicomp21: Thanks @Evgeni_Popov ! It must get reset when I disconnect/reconnect the node, which makes sense. One tip: you can compare two node materials by comparing their .json files (that’s what I did to find the difference) :wink:

One tip: you can compare two node materials by comparing their .json files (that’s what I did to find the difference) @Evgeni_Popov I’ll do that next time, thanks!

Asking the big guns for help. Making perturbed normal bumps opened 11:07AM - 08 May 21 UTC (UTC) [unicomp21] unicomp21 Hi @stegu @ijm Any chance I could beg for your help on this one? We're havi…ng trouble making bumps w/ perturbed normals in babylon.js, would be grateful for your expertise. Here is the discussion link. Trying to make a simple example where the perturbed normal bumps look good, like in Fig. 5-11. https://forum.babylonjs.com/t/discontinuities-in-simplex-noise/20611/12

Think I see what’s happening, the lerp/smoothstep between mesh.position’s in the vertices is discontinuous. And until WebGPU comes out, don’t think there is any way to create a geometry shader. https://nodematerial-editor.babylonjs.com/#WTQ3DG Plane geometry looks fine. Other geometries look bad.

Discontinuities in simplex noise

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You can load a custom scene in the NME, so you can create in the Playground a scene with instances and save it as a .babylon scene that you can reload in the NME.

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