Reply To: Dialing in Musgrave from Noise in Blender 4.1

[Dora Furlong]

I am very confused by such a strong and negative response to my post. Who said anything about copying numbers out? Am I suddenly in the wrong because I happen to like using the Musgrave texture and Voronoi texture in the exercises or my own work? Or because an instructor used it in the exercise, I am suddenly supposed to avoid it? I have to avoid colors or shapes and do everything opposite? I mean, I get it in colored pencil art, we follow along with the exercises, learn and then do it again with our own spins on it to develop our techniques. But uh, I fail to see how offering a texture that was ok and given to us as its own thing in one version is suddenly wrong to offer when it’s buried in the noise texture and has to be intentionally, and perhaps confusingly, dialed in. 

Besides, plenty of newer people may come here and not have a previous version and not want to download the previous versions. I’m certainly not going to download five different versions of Blender just to match the exercise. It’s hardly been that big of deal using 4.1 and the research to figure out how something has changed and why it may not work has been a good learning opportunity.

Also, as an artist, I happen to have started keeping the various versions of the textures that produce interesting results as patterns. IE Waves–>Mountains. Since that is what I now had to do with the Musgrave, it certainly sounds like you are saying that is wrong to do and share. The included textures produce thousands of possible outcomes. I do not see how sharing one or even a few of the variations I like with others is wrong. Especially one that lots of people who liked the default Musgrave are going to either dial in and save or export from an older version.