the plugins

dots

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ever wanted to have a pink dotted wallpaper? well, here it is:

with the dots plugin for blender you can create textures like the one above; let's have a look at the plugin:

the plugin have four parameter you can adjust:

• size
  with this parameter you can adjust the size of the dots between 0.0 and 1.0; if this parameter reaches 0.5 the dots touch each other; if it is larger they overlap

• noise
  if this parameter is non-zero (larger than 0.001 to be exactly) it will cause a distortion of the dots (see below)

• smooth
  this is a toggle button which give the dots a smooth border, which means the texture value raises from 0. at the border to 1. at the center; this can be usefull with layered textures or colorbands

• no aalias
  this option is new and is not displayed in the snapshots; you can disable anti-aliasing with it for this texture even if it was enabled in the render window

examples

apart from the simple pink dots above you can do:

• adding noise
  you can distort the dots by increasing the noise parameter; you get a result like this:
  

• combining textures
  here is an example with blue and pink dots in different sizes
  
  this can be done by adjusting the sizeX and sizeY parameter in the material window

• using as an alpha texture
  do you see the red sphere behind the plane?
  

  you can get this effect by pushing the alpha button in the texture window and setting the mode from mix to sub; have a look at the picture below:

  

• using colorbands
  with the colorband option and smooth dots you can create rings:
  

  you have to activate the colorband option, add another color and adjust the slider just as in the picture below:

  

  we now make the dots larger, add a little noise, modify the colorband and getting this weird picture:

  

  the parameters for this texture:

  

download

here you can get the C-source and a precompiled version for a linux i386 system as a gzipped-tar-file: