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Shaders

GPU material passes: glass, chrome, foil, halftone, oil paint, and a node graph to build your own.

16 entries

Glass & Refraction

Refraction, dispersion and frost. These read what is BEHIND the layer and bend it, so they only look right when there is something underneath to distort.

Liquid Glass

Real refraction glass over whatever sits behind the layer — dispersion fringe, frost, rim light, magnifier zoom

Chrome & Metal

Reflective surfaces driven by an environment approximation rather than a real scene. Chrome, foil, holographic film.

Holo Chrome

Iridescent chrome field — rainbow bands squeeze into ribbons where the liquid surface folds, with full artifact cleanup controls

Crushed Foil

Crumpled metallic foil with angular color clustering, crease hairlines and live pointer ripples, wakes and foam

Molten Chrome

Liquid mercury metal — the silhouette (or merging blobs) reflects a hard-horizon studio environment with light strips

Molten Emblem

Inflated liquid-metal mark — the silhouette balloons by its own thickness while molten reflections flow through a color ramp

Gradient Flows

Colour flowing across the layer over time. The workhorses for backgrounds and title cards.

Spectra Warp

Blurred silhouette bent by a directional wave and dyed through a cyclic color ramp — the flowing spectral-blade look

Silk Flow

Flowing liquid-gradient folds — domain-warped noise lit with glossy streaks, colors pouring along the creases

Aurora Mesh

Soft drifting mesh-style gradient — up to five color nodes floating and blending, with flow warp and grain

Liquid & Distort

Displacement that reads as a substance — melting, warping, dissolving.

Melt Flow

The layer melts and drips like liquid — viscosity, necking tails, detached droplets and a pool, lit with a wet sheen

Warp Dissolve

Displacement-driven dissolve — a procedural map warps the layer with rotation and scale displacement while the wipe follows the distortion

Artistic

Passes that imitate a medium: brush marks, ink, paint.

Oil Paint

Turns the layer into an oil painting — strokes follow the image structure, wrap around forms and build real impasto ridges

Retro & Print

Print and display artefacts — halftone dots, ordered dithering, scanlines. Deliberately lossy.

Halftone Press

Print-press halftone of the layer — dots, lines, squares or a full CMYK rosette at classic screen angles

Bit Dither

Ordered-dither quantization — chunky pixels, Bayer patterning, low color counts, down to 1-bit duotone

Tube Glow

Phosphor-screen treatment — scanlines, RGB triads, barrel curvature, drift line, flicker and vignette

Procedural Texture

Procedural patterns evaluated per pixel: noise, gradients, cells, stripes. Because they are functions rather than images, they stay sharp at any resolution and can be layered without a bake between levels.

Texture Lab

Procedural texture stack — noise, cells and patterns layered with blend, mask, warp and per-pixel drive, compiled into one GPU pass

Node Graph

A shader built in the node editor — motion, shape, texture and material nodes compiled into one GPU pass