Random color?

[luvsmuzik]

I rendered this in Blender, but I am curious Dune if your PF layering (like you did on your multi displaced colored rock) without displacement would vary the tree colors for me in TG? This is done with a random diffuse node in Blender. I was trying to make twinkle lights.

This image has been blurred and flare after effects, doesn't have to be for TG.

[Dune]

If you use a transform shader set to world position between colors and the object you can add whatever colors in world space to any object.

[luvsmuzik]

If you use a transform shader set to world position between colors and the object you can add whatever colors in world space to any object.

I guess I wasn't clear with that question. This is only one object as if in a population. There are only two leaf colors here, a lighter green and a darker green in the original object, whole leaf mesh divided by selection to mimic lighting. In my image it renders with two at most random colors per leaf mesh.

So I guess what I was asking, can I chain stack a few PFs with a transform input set to world and get various colors in a single tree or will they just blend into mud?

[AP]

See if this helps.

Note: Just attach the clip file to the Colour function connection.

[Dune]

You can also use an image map to diversify leaves of one tree, set to UV or Y projection, but with a transform shader in between. I just took some (squarish) map, so colored fractals will work likewise. You can also assign one of the colors (try convert... blue to scalar) to a luminosity input for lights....

[AP]

That looks to be an interesting solution as well.

[luvsmuzik]

See if this helps.

Note: Just attach the clip file to the Colour function connection.

You can also use an image map to diversify leaves of one tree, set to UV or Y projection, but with a transform shader in between. I just took some (squarish) map, so colored fractals will work likewise. You can also assign one of the colors (try convert... blue to scalar) to a luminosity input for lights....

Thank you AP and Dune! I will try both methods.

Interesting that multiple color shaders can share those elements. Example, the PF and transform feeding into many. That saves some copy/paste time. 

[luvsmuzik]

See if this helps.

Note: Just attach the clip file to the Colour function connection.

Sorry to wait so long to post this. It worked great! Thanks again!
Used a spot light in the night render.

[luvsmuzik]

Fun fun fun...
Still playing with clip files, I merged a glass shader with colour tgc on a very displaced vase and got my "Monet look" I increased the scale of the PF on the colour side (at the transform input) before the merge.

Then I upped the contrast in the PF on the colour side PF and lowered the reflectivity on the glass side.. ..last image...
Not liking the shadow result, I ran the last smooth vase through Poseray and recalculated the normals. I am new to this but maybe it worked okay.
I could probably just feed colour through a transform input without the glass on the last image.