Node Reference

Created Oct 3, 2026 · Updated Oct 22, 2026

This page lists every node in the Node Editor’s node list, in the same categories and order as the list itself, with what each node does and the names of its inputs and outputs. For how to add, connect and edit nodes see Node Editor; for the material and mesh-aware nodes in more depth see Material Nodes and Mesh-Aware Nodes. The output nodes (Principled BSDF and Mask Output) and group nodes are not in the node list and are not covered here.

Input

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Value	A single number you set on the node.	—	Value
Color	A colour you pick. It is picked in sRGB and passed on as linear colour.	—	Color
Integer	A whole number you set on the node.	—	Value
Boolean	An on/off value (1 or 0).	—	Value
Vector	An X, Y, Z vector you type in.	—	Vector
Texture Coordinate	The coordinates of each point: object-space position, position within the model’s bounds (0–1), the first UV map, and the normal.	—	Object, Generated, UV, Normal
Geometry	Per-point attributes of the mesh: position, normal, tangent, vertex colour (white if there is none) and material ID.	—	Position, Normal, Tangent, Vertex Color, Material ID
Image	Samples an image file through a projection (UV by default), with its own scale, offset and rotation. Settings choose the colour space (Auto, sRGB, Linear, Non-Color), interpolation and edge extension. A missing image shows magenta.	Projection, Scale, Offset, Rotation, Function	Color, Alpha, Value
Layer	Reads one channel of the paint beneath this Node Layer. Where nothing is below it reads transparent black.	—	Color, Value, Alpha

Projection

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Object Projection	Places a pattern or image in the model’s object space.	Transform	Projection
Bounds Projection	Fits the pattern or image to the model’s bounding box.	Transform	Projection
UV Projection	Places the pattern or image using a UV map (UV Channel setting).	Transform	Projection
Triplanar Projection	Projects along all three axes and blends between them (Blend Sharpness setting).	Transform	Projection
Planar Projection	Projects flat along one axis (X, Y or Z).	Transform	Projection
Spherical Projection	Wraps the pattern or image around a sphere.	Transform	Projection
Cylindrical Projection	Wraps the pattern or image around a cylinder on one axis (X, Y or Z).	Transform	Projection
Coordinates to Projection	Turns any vector wired into it into a projection, so you can build your own coordinates.	Coordinates, Transform	Projection
Transform	Builds a placement — offset, rotation in degrees and scale — for a projection’s Transform input.	Offset, Rotation, Scale	Transform

Pattern

Most patterns also take a Tileable (2D UV) switch and a Function input; they are listed with each node.

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Noise	Fractal noise. Type: fBM, Ridged, Multifractal, Hetero Terrain, Hybrid Multifractal or Ridged Multifractal; basis: Perlin, Value or Simplex.	Projection, Size, Detail, Roughness, Lacunarity, Distortion, Seed, Offset, Gain, Tileable, Function	Factor, Color
Voronoi	Cellular pattern. Feature: F1, F2, Distance to Edge, F2 − F1 or Smooth F1; distance: Euclidean, Manhattan or Chebyshev. Cell ID is a random value per cell.	Projection, Size, Randomness, Smoothness, Seed, Tileable, Function	Distance, Color, Position, Cell ID
Checker	A checkerboard of two colours.	Projection, Size, Color 1, Color 2, Tileable, Function	Color, Factor
Brick	Bricks with mortar, in a Running, Stack, Herringbone or Basketweave bond.	Projection, Brick Width, Brick Height, Mortar, Mortar Smooth, Bevel, Row Offset, Color 1, Color 2, Mortar Color, Seed, Tileable, Function	Color, Mortar, Height, Brick ID
Wave	Bands or rings along X, Y, Z or diagonally, with a sine, saw or triangle profile, optionally distorted.	Projection, Wavelength, Phase, Distortion, Detail, Detail Scale, Detail Roughness, Tileable, Function	Factor, Color
Hexagons	Honeycomb tiles separated by a gap.	Projection, Size, Gap, Gap Smooth, Bevel, Color 1, Color 2, Gap Color, Seed, Tileable, Function	Color, Gap, Height, Cell ID
White Noise	A random value per cell of the given size — speckle.	Projection, Size, Seed, Function	Value, Color
Magic	A swirling, psychedelic colour pattern.	Projection, Size, Depth, Distortion, Function	Color, Factor
Shape	One shape per tile — Disc, Square, Polygon or Star — with a Flat (Bevel), Cone, Paraboloid or Bell profile.	Projection, Tile Size, Scale, Sides, Inner Radius, Rotation, Edge Softness, Bevel, Shape Color, Background Color, Seed, Tileable, Function	Color, Mask, Height, Cell ID
Radial Tiling	Divides space into wedge segments around a centre (a kaleidoscope) and gives coordinates within each segment.	Projection, Sides, Roundness	Segment Coordinates, Segment ID, Segment Width, Segment Rotation
Domain Warp	Noise whose coordinates are warped by noise, one or two levels deep — marble and swirls.	Projection, Size, Strength, Detail, Roughness, Lacunarity, Seed, Tileable, Function	Factor, Color, Warped Coordinates, Warp Amount
Stripes	Parallel stripes at an angle.	Projection, Spacing, Width, Angle, Edge Softness, Stripe Color, Background Color, Seed, Tileable, Function	Color, Mask, Stripe ID
Weave	Woven fabric threads, with separate warp and weft colours.	Projection, Thread Spacing, Thread Width, Edge Softness, Warp Color, Weft Color, Gap Color, Tileable, Function	Color, Mask, Height, Thread
Cracks	A network of cracks, like dry mud or crazed paint.	Projection, Size, Width, Edge Softness, Bevel, Distortion, Detail, Roughness, Randomness, Seed, Tileable, Function	Mask, Height, Color, Cell ID
Crystals	Faceted shards shaded between a light and a dark colour.	Projection, Size, Facet Contrast, Randomness, Light Color, Dark Color, Seed, Tileable, Function	Factor, Color, Edge Distance, Cell ID
Gabor	Gabor noise — directional, grainy streaks such as brushed metal.	Projection, Size, Frequency, Anisotropy, Orientation, Seed, Tileable, Function	Value, Phase, Intensity
Metaballs	Blobs that merge into one another.	Projection, Size, Radius, Radius Variation, Randomness, Threshold, Edge Softness, Bevel, Seed, Tileable, Function	Mask, Height, Field
Random Lines	Short, randomly placed lines — scratches, straw, hatching.	Projection, Size, Lines per Cell, Length, Width, Angle, Angle Randomness, Edge Softness, Line Color, Background Color, Seed, Tileable, Function	Color, Mask, Height, Line ID
Tile Sampler	Scatters copies of whatever is wired into Stamp over a grid of cells, with random scale, rotation, offset, density and colour. Stamp Resolution sets how finely the stamp is drawn (128, 256 or 512).	Projection, Stamp, Cell Size, Scale, Scale Randomness, Rotation, Rotation Randomness, Offset Randomness, Density, Color Randomness, Seed, Tileable, Function	Color, Mask, Cell ID
Gradient	A 0–1 ramp across the model’s bounds: Linear X, Y or Z, Diagonal, Radial, Spherical, Quadratic Sphere, Easing or Quadratic.	Projection, Function	Factor, Color

Color

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Mix	Blends B over A by Factor using one of 26 blend modes (Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Soft Light … Luminosity), optionally clamping the result.	Factor, A, B	Result
Color Ramp	Maps a 0–1 value to a colour along a gradient you edit.	Factor	Color, Alpha
RGB Curves	Reshapes the colour with curves you draw (see Editing curves): C changes all three channels, R, G and B one each, after C. Works on the colour as you see it, like Levels; Factor blends the result in.	Factor, Color	Color
Levels	Adjusts input black and white, gamma, and output black and white.	Color	Color
Hue/Saturation/Value	Shifts the hue and scales saturation and value, mixed in by Factor.	Hue, Saturation, Value, Factor, Color	Color
Invert	Inverts the colour, mixed in by Factor.	Factor, Color	Color
Brightness/Contrast	Changes brightness and contrast.	Color, Brightness, Contrast	Color
Gamma	Applies a gamma (power) curve to the colour.	Color, Gamma	Color
Grayscale	Converts a colour to a single brightness value.	Color	Value
Separate Color	Splits a colour into its RGB or HSV channels.	Color	Red / Hue, Green / Saturation, Blue / Value
Combine Color	Builds a colour from RGB or HSV channels.	Red / Hue, Green / Saturation, Blue / Value	Color

Function

A Function node is plugged into another node’s Function input and reshapes that node’s result. Its own Function input chains another Function after it. Every Function node has one input and one output, both called Function.

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Bias	Pushes values towards 0 or 1 (Perlin’s bias curve; Bias setting).	Function	Function
Gain	An S-curve about the middle (Perlin’s gain; Gain setting).	Function	Function
Gamma	A power curve (Gamma setting).	Function	Function
Sine	Turns the value into a repeating 0–1 sine wave (Frequency, Phase).	Function	Function
Triangle	Turns the value into a repeating zigzag (Frequency, Phase).	Function	Function
Wrap	Repeats the value as a sawtooth (Frequency).	Function	Function
Step	1 at or above Edge, 0 below it.	Function	Function
Smooth Step	A smooth 0-to-1 transition between Low and High.	Function	Function
Box Step	1 between Low and High, 0 outside.	Function	Function
Modulate	Multiplies the value by Scale and adds Offset.	Function	Function

Math

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Math	One of 41 operations on numbers — arithmetic, power and logarithm, minimum/maximum, comparisons, rounding, modulo, wrap, snap, ping-pong, trigonometry and degree/radian conversion. Divide by zero gives 0. Optional Clamp.	A, B, C, Function	Value
Vector Math	One of 30 operations on vectors, including add, multiply, cross and dot product, project, reflect, refract, distance, length, scale and normalize. Dot Product, Distance and Length give a number on Value.	A, B, C, Scale	Vector, Value
Map Range	Remaps a value from one range to another, linearly, in steps, or with a smooth or smoother step. Optional Clamp.	Value, From Min, From Max, To Min, To Max, Steps, Function	Result
Float Curve	Reshapes a value with a curve you draw over 0–1 (see Editing curves); Factor blends the result in.	Factor, Value	Value
Clamp	Limits a value between Min and Max. In Range mode Min and Max are swapped if Min is the larger.	Value, Min, Max	Result

Vector

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Normal Map	Decodes a tangent-space normal-map colour into a normal, scaled by Strength. Convention: OpenGL or DirectX (green flipped).	Color, Strength	Normal
Bump	A normal from a height, as Blender’s Bump: a height of 1 rises Distance (in metres, default 2 cm); Strength (0–1) blends toward the incoming normal; Invert pushes in instead of out. A normal wired into its Normal input gets the bump added, so bumps stack. A texture filter: it reads its neighbours, also listed under Filter.	Height, Normal	Normal
Displacement	Turns a height into a Displacement channel value, where mid grey is no movement: 0.5 + (Height − Midlevel) × Strength, clamped to 0–1.	Height, Midlevel, Strength	Displacement
Separate XYZ	Splits a vector into its X, Y and Z numbers.	Vector	X, Y, Z
Combine XYZ	Builds a vector from X, Y and Z numbers.	X, Y, Z	Vector
Vector Curves	Reshapes each part of a vector with its own curve over −1 to 1 (X, Y, Z; see Editing curves); Factor blends the result in.	Factor, Vector	Vector

Filter

Filters read neighbouring texels, so they work on texture layers only. Radii and distances are fractions of the texture’s width, so a graph looks the same at every layer size.

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Blur	Softens the input over a radius.	Input	Result
Sharpen	Sharpens the input (Radius, Amount).	Input	Result
Height to Normal	Builds a normal from a height map (Strength).	Height	Normal
Bump	Height to Normal with Blender’s controls — Distance in metres, Strength, Invert — stacking onto a Normal input (see Vector).	Height, Normal	Normal
Edge Detect	Finds edges in the input (Strength).	Input	Edge
Warp	Distorts the input by a second map, either along that map’s slope or in one direction (Intensity, Angle).	Input, Intensity Map	Result
Slope Blur	Blurs the input along the slope of a second map — streaks and erosion (Intensity, Samples).	Input, Slope Map	Result
Make It Tile	Cross-fades the edges so the texture repeats seamlessly (Border).	Input	Result
Distance	0 on the mask, rising to 1 at Max Distance from it.	Mask	Distance
AO from Height	Ambient occlusion worked out from a height map (Radius, Depth).	Height	Occlusion

Mesh

Masks and maps made from the model’s own geometry (details on Mesh-Aware Nodes). Ambient Occlusion, the curvature nodes, Thickness, Density, Bent Normal, Bevel, Raycast, Environment Light, Flood Fill, Wireframe, Vertex Color and ID read a map made in the background, on texture layers and vertex layers (Flood Fill, Wireframe and ID by UV Island on texture layers only); the layer fills in when the map is done.

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Ambient Occlusion	How much the model’s own geometry shades each point, within a distance in metres (Distance, Samples).	Function	Occlusion
Curvature	White wherever the surface bends, either way (Distance, Intensity).	Function	Curvature
Cavity	White in creases and crevices only (Distance, Intensity).	Function	Cavity
Edge	White on convex edges only (Distance, Intensity).	Function	Edge
Concave	The baked Concave map: recessed areas (Distance, Intensity). Shares Cavity’s bake.	Function	Concave
Convex	The baked Convex map: raised areas (Distance, Intensity). Shares Edge’s bake.	Function	Convex
Thickness	1 where the mesh is at least Distance thick behind the surface, 0 where it is paper thin.	Function	Thickness
Density	The share of a sphere of radius Distance around the point that is inside the model: about 0.5 on a flat face, less on thin parts, more in crevices (Distance, Samples).	Function	Density
Bent Normal	The average direction the point can see out of, in object space (Distance, Samples).	—	Color, Normal
Environment Light	A sky colour above and a ground colour below, blended by facing and darkened by ambient occlusion (Up Axis, Distance, Samples).	Sky, Ground, Intensity, Contrast, Occlusion	Color
Object Normal	The surface normal as the standard normal-map colour and as a vector.	—	Color, Normal
World Normal	The same as Object Normal: in Vertexix the model’s space is world space.	—	Color, Normal
Position	The point’s position scaled to 0–1, as a colour or one axis (Axis, Normalization).	—	Color, Value
Vertex Color	The vertex colours of the mesh the layer is on; white where there are none.	—	Color, Alpha
ID	A flat colour and a random value per region: mesh piece, material, UV island or vertex colour (Source).	—	Color, Random
Opacity	The material’s own opacity under this layer: the lower of its Alpha channel and Base Color alpha.	—	Opacity
Bevel	Rounded-looking edges, as Blender’s Bevel: the normal a rounded edge of that radius would have, in tangent space for the output’s Normal (Radius, Samples).	Normal	Normal, Color
Wireframe	1 along the mesh’s polygon edges (Size In: Metres or Texels; Size; Size in Texels).	Function	Factor
Raycast	A ray from each point in one direction: whether it hits anything within Length, and how far (Direction, Length, Spread, Samples).	Function	Is Hit, Hit Distance
Flood Fill	Per UV island: a random value, a random colour, and 0–1 gradients across the island in U and V.	Function	Random, Random Color, Gradient U, Gradient V
Position Gradient	0 below Start, rising smoothly to 1 at End along an axis; both are fractions of the model’s bounds. Start above End turns it upside down.	Start, End, Function	Factor
Direction Mask	1 where the surface faces Direction by more than Threshold, blended over Softness.	Direction, Threshold, Softness, Function	Mask

Material

Node	What it does	Inputs	Outputs
Principled Material	Bundles Principled channels into one Material wire. Only channels that are linked or changed from their default are carried; they override an optional Base Material.	Base Material, Base Color, Metallic, Roughness, IOR, Alpha, Normal, Specular Weight, Specular Color, Emission Color, Emission Strength, Coat Weight, Coat Roughness, Sheen Weight, Sheen Color, Sheen Roughness, Transmission Weight, Height, Displacement, Ambient Occlusion	Material
Material Mix	Mixes two materials. By Mask: A where the mask is 0, B where it is 1. By Height: whichever material stands higher wins, the mask biasing it and Height Blend Softness softening the seam.	Material A, Material B, Mask, Height Blend Softness	Material
Material Input	Uses another graph of the project as one Material (Graph setting).	—	Material
Material Layer Stack	A base material with up to four layers, each laid over what is below it by its mask — a chain of Material Mixes in one node. By Mask or By Height.	Base, Layer 1–4, Mask 1–4, Height Blend Softness	Material
Extract Channel	Reads one channel out of a material.	Material	Color, Value
Override Channel	Replaces one channel of a material. Colour and vector channels take Color; number channels take Value.	Material, Color, Value	Material

Editing curves

RGB Curves, Float Curve and Vector Curves are shaped in the node’s settings, with a curve editor that works the way Blender’s does — and the curves come out the same shape as Blender’s for the same points.

Click an empty part of the graph to add a point there; drag a point to move it; right-click a point to delete it (a curve keeps at least two). Hovering shows the point’s position, or the curve’s output at the pointer.
The buttons above the graph pick which curve you edit: C R G B on RGB Curves, X Y Z on Vector Curves. The others show faintly behind it.
Presets puts a ready-made shape on the curve you are editing: Linear, or an Ease In, Ease Out or Ease In-Out of Sine, Quad, Cubic, Quart, Quint, Expo, Circ or Back. The arrows either side step through them. A preset becomes ordinary points you can keep editing.
With a point picked: its X and Y to type in, Sharp for a corner there instead of a smooth bend, and Delete Point.
Extend: past the first and last point the curve carries on along its end (Extrapolated, the default, as in Blender) or stays level (Horizontal). It also decides what happens to values outside the curve’s range, such as colours brighter than 1.
Reset Curve puts the curve you are editing back to a straight line.