Shuffle Tiles
To shuffle your image based on a custom XY tiling. Important: this is shuffle, not random. See further notes…
This node has a color version.
These nodes are based on a custom setup shared by Nicolas Wirrmann in the Substance Discord.
If used directly, we obtain a set of apparently random X*Y little squares/rectangles, each one with a different level of gray, from the whitest to the blackest, so that no tone is repeated more than once and we can change the seed for the shuffle operation. Note that this is NOT a random distribution, where you can end with more than one or two copies of same tone… and at the same time maybe some tone can be missing. This is shuffle disordering, not random generation.
If we apply it on an input image the result is like cutting that image into X*Y squares and shuffling their tiles positions.
More details in this “Substance 3D Tools” section, side by side with other resources.
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