Toggles the effect of the layer on and off to duplicate the functionality of toggling visibility in the Shader Tree. When disabled, the layer has no effect on the shading of the scene. However, Modo saves disabled layers with the scene, and they are persistent across Modo sessions.

Inverts the colors (RGB values) for the layer to produce a photonegative effect.

Affects the blending between different layers of the same effect type. With this, you can stack several layers for different effects.

For more about blending, see the Layer Blend Modes topic.

Changes the transparency of the current layer. Reducing this value increasingly reveals lower layers in the Shader Tree, if present, or dims the effect of the layer, itself, on the surface.

Sets the association for the Texture Locator. Most texture layers have a Texture Locator that Modo automatically creates in the Item List. This defines the mapping of the texture (how Modo applies the texture) to the surface. You can specify alternate locators, but the need to do so is rare. Still, you may want multiple texture items to share a single locator.

Specifies the initial number Modo uses when generating the procedural values. Different Seed values produce different random variations and can be useful in changing the texture result; however, you need to use the same Seed value when you want items to retain the same variations.

Determines the percentage of the surface that is covered by bricks.

Determines the amount of grout between the tiles.

Determines the width of the bevel on the tiles.

Determines the roundedness of the corners on individual tiles.

Determines the shape and layout of the tiles. There are 28 options including:

• Basket Weave

• Windmill

• Trellis

• Cobbled

• Bricks 1

When enabled, normalizes the corners so that the larger bricks match the smaller bricks.

Determines the number of times the pattern repeats in the U direction (horizontally).

Determines the number of times the pattern repeats in the V direction (vertically).

Specifies the look of the texture's distortion and provides several noise function types:

• Perlin

• Enhanced Perlin

• Gradient

• Value

• Gradient Value

• Impulse

• Lattice

• Bubble

Specifies the initial number Modo uses when generating the procedural values. Different Seed values produce different random variations and can be useful in changing the texture result; however, you need to use the same Seed value when you want items to retain the same variations.

Specifies the number of layers of noise Modo uses when distorting the texture. This, in effect, produces greater detail and is similar to the Patch Levels setting.

Specifies the strength of the distortion effect on the base texture.

Specifies the size (scale) of the distortion effect on the base texture.

Specifies the step size that Modo uses between each iteration of the noise to disturb the texture.

Turns on full 3D distortion, which yields better results, but a full 3D distortion takes longer to render.

When enabled, outputs random gray shades per region rather than outlines for tiles. This adds random variety to the procedurally created texture. You can further control the amount of variation using the Regional HSV process layer.

Specifies the Color (or Value) of the texture's background area, which ramps toward the Foreground Color/Value.

Specifies the Alpha transparency of the Background Color.

When enabled, makes the Background Color area completely transparent to reveal the shading results of lower layers.

Specifies the Color (or Value) of the texture's foreground area, which ramps toward the Background Color/Value.

Specifies the Alpha transparency of the Foreground Color.