[Bf-funboard] A needed node.

[Knapp]

On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Jason van Gumster <
jason at handturkeystudios.com> wrote:

> Perhaps this is a dumb question, but random color/number on what event?
> Screen
> refresh? Frame change?
>
> If it's the latter, why not simply keyframe the color on an RGB node (or
> the
> number on a Value node) and add a Noise modifier to the desired channels
> in the
> Graph Editor? I've done this before in the compositor nodes and BI's
> material
> nodes. I haven't tried with the Cycles' nodes, but I can't image it
> wouldn't
> work.
>
>   -Jason


Keyframe would only work with animation. I don't do much of that. Noise, I
have played with but show me a working cycles file. It is also not clear
what you get out of the Noise Node.

Here is a sample blend. It is using a random number to color particles.
Note that the color is not very random.

 http://www.pasteall.org/blend/22469

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