Perlin Noise

Generate smooth organic noise for clouds, terrain, masks, marble bases, and animated flow fields.

Written By Massimo Albanese

Last updated About 4 hours ago

Generate smooth organic noise for clouds, terrain, masks, marble bases, and animated flow fields.

Location

Texture & Pattern / Generative / Pattern Generator / Perlin Noise

Select the layer to edit Perlin Noise in the Effect Panel. Open Parameters below for individual controls.

Double-click a control label to reset it. Use its function button to add keyframes or a driver.

Control	What it does	Default	Range	Nudge	Animation
Feature Size	Feature Size setting for this effect.	6.4	0.2 to 40	0.1	Continuous keyframes
Feature Size Unit	Chooses whether feature size is measured as a percentage or pixels.	%	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Flow	Flow setting for this effect.	0	0 to 1	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Flow Depth	Flow Depth setting for this effect.	0	0 to 10	0.1	Continuous keyframes
Flow Depth Unit	Chooses whether flow depth is measured as a percentage or pixels.	%	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Lacunarity	Lacunarity setting for this effect.	2	1.1 to 4	0.05	Continuous keyframes
Mode	Operation mode for the selected effect family.	generative	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Octaves	Sets how many octaves are used; higher values add detail or quality.	4	1 to 8	1	Continuous keyframes
Pattern Type	Pattern Type setting for this effect.	perlin	Panel-defined	Continuous	Panel-dependent
Persistence	Persistence setting for this effect.	0.5	0.05 to 0.95	0.01	Continuous keyframes
Seed	Deterministic random seed for generated structure.	0	0 to 99999	1	Discrete keyframes

madphase 1.4.0

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