Random Node - How it properly works?

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Snowcarver
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Random Node - How it properly works?

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This is the question.

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Shantarli
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Re: Random Node - How it properly works?

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You need 2 materials with different seed, another way will be use Object ID node
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Re: Random Node - How it properly works?

Post by B.Y.O.B. »

The "Random" node is a random number generator. The input value is mapped to a pseudo-random output depending on the seed and the input value. So you need to plug something random in to get something random out.

In short: it is not the right node for what you want to do.
As Shantarli said, use the Object ID node in "normalized" mode instead (it can be found in the "Utils" category). In LuxCore, object IDs are by default assigned randomly, so they can be used to get a random value per object as long as you don't set an object ID manually.
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Re: Random Node - How it properly works?

Post by Snowcarver »

Shantarli wrote: Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:43 pm You need 2 materials...
B.Y.O.B. wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 12:13 am The "Random" node is a random number generator...
Big Thanks! I`ll try.

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Excellent, it works, just what I need! Thank You very much!
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