Its just that previously to this thread I used hand drawn displacement maps for anything that others would use blue nodes for. ITs much better to use blue nodes.
I just learned a ton about TG in the last week is all. Or rather I can now make more practical, the things I understood in the abstract.
Still really cant construct my own functions yet. I understand the functions and most of the math. A rectangle is not exactly astro physics. But a blue node for each part of an expression just doesn't translate for me now. I would probably do better if I could just write things out in a text editor, but that is also in its self a time consuming learning indevor.
Another hard part of the blues, is that some nodes simply understand and pass on the data of the previous node so that it can be altered by the next node, and that becomes its own language... Then when you start back feeding nodes into nodes, so that several nodes have multiple connections, speaking/writing becomes almost non linear which makes no sense to me.
On the plus side, I am having a blast making small edits to the files posted here, and then mix and matching groups of clips. When I think of the clip files here as one node (where the group serves one purpose) then I make good progress using them to draw with.
Doubt I'll ever be an expert or anything, but I am being productive right now and that makes me feel good.
