Where to find the sinewave blue nodes?

Started by westergard, April 22, 2026, 09:45:48 AM

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westergard

Hello everyone,

i am watching the terratuts tutorial on how to create alien pillars.  At exactly 1:52, he copy/pastes a bunch of blue nodes all starting with the sinewave_xyz.  I have searched this forum and found that there is a tgc file clip that creates a red sinewave node, but i can't use it the way he uses it in his tuto.  

Anyone know where i can get all these sinewave nodes with all the functions in blue (see pic).

Thanks so much for your help

Westergard

Kevin Kipper

The quickest way to add any node to the Node Network is to press the tab key while the Node Network pane is active.  The pane is active when you see the dotted yellow line around the pane.  If it's not active just left click once in an empty space within the pane to activate it.  Clicking the tab key launches the Quick Node Palette.  You can immediately start typing the name of a node and the list of nodes will go to the closest match in the list.  Double clicking a node will add it to the Node Network.  

Also note that the node names in the screen grabbed image have been slightly changed by the user.  For example the node labeled "sineWave_finalFrequency"  is probably a "Sin Scalar" node.  If you hover over any node in the Node Network a tool tip will pop-up and show you the name and type of node.  The type of node is what is displayed in the Quick Node Palette.

Alternately, you can right click in the Node Network and find the blue function nodes under the Create Function context menu options.

Dune

Get position in texture, X to scalar, multiply/divide scalar by a constant scalar (for size), finalizing with the sin scalar.