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I've been creating various camouflage patterns using Cycles material nodes. Now I want to create a digital camouflage pattern like the one below.

Digital Camouflage

My first thought was to pixelate a noise pattern. I've tried to do so but haven't been able to find a way to. So my question is:

Is it possible to pixelate a procedural texture such as noise? Or is there another way I could create this pattern using cycles nodes?

Thanks :)

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  • $\begingroup$ Have you tried plugging a noise texture into both inputs of a checker texture? $\endgroup$ Jan 30, 2015 at 14:18
  • $\begingroup$ All that is giving me is two noise patterns checkered. Still not pixelated. $\endgroup$ Jan 30, 2015 at 14:33
  • $\begingroup$ would an OSL approach be ok? something like: blenderartists.org/forum/… $\endgroup$
    – zeffii
    Jan 30, 2015 at 14:56
  • $\begingroup$ I've never done any OSL shaders. But I've been looking into learning them. If necessary it would be ok. $\endgroup$ Jan 30, 2015 at 15:00

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Update for Blender 2.81+ Versions

You can now do this much easier by using the Vector Math Node. Just set it to Snap and insert it in front of the Image Texture Node like seen in the Screenshot. The values of the second Vector Input can be used to control the resolution on each axis. Divide 1 by any value to get better control over the resolution.

Vector Snap to control texture resolution

You can also control X and Y resolution separately by arranging the Nodes like this:

enter image description here

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    $\begingroup$ ...New function! I guess you could use floor(), by dividing the coordinate instead of 1... $\endgroup$
    – Robin Betts
    Jan 18, 2020 at 11:00
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This is done with rounding the mapping vectors.

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The resolution for X and Y can be set with value nodes.

It will work for any texture (for 3D texture just copy the rounding nodes into the Z channel) and you have separate controls for X and Y resolutions.

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If you also surround the Multi-Round-Divide nodes with Add and Subtract you can change the center point of effect (add and subtract the same number..)

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  • $\begingroup$ Wow! Thank you very very much! Works perfectly! Now I'm going to have to study this to see "How" it works. $\endgroup$ Jan 30, 2015 at 15:06
  • $\begingroup$ You should upload a picture @Jerryno $\endgroup$ Jan 30, 2015 at 15:09
  • $\begingroup$ @RegusMartin You may want to check out this answer, it explains how texture coordinates work. $\endgroup$
    – PGmath
    Jan 30, 2015 at 15:36
  • $\begingroup$ @PGmath Nice explanation! That should be added to the Wiki for the Texture Coordinates node. $\endgroup$ Jan 30, 2015 at 16:23
  • $\begingroup$ If only we could blur... but this is a great explanation. I wonder if you can stretch the aspect of the boxes to eliminate the half size boxes on the sides? $\endgroup$
    – 3pointedit
    May 22, 2015 at 6:46

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