Texture nodes breaking instancing?

[JBroadway]

I have rectangle going into a transform node, and then a linear node going into the translation input. Instancing works as intended and the rectangle is duplicated.

However if I convert that shape to a texture (or use a Texture2D node like crop) then send it into the transform node, instancing no longer works. Furthermore, disconnecting the texture node and re-connecting it in the original configuration no longer produces an instanced output.

Is this a bug?

Video example

[tijnisfijn]

Hi Man, I am getting your confusion but it is working. The big differents is the shape system will count in relative numbers. So in case of a 1920×1080 resolution the shape system will go from x = -1,777778 to 1,777778 and y = -1 to 1. And if you use a texture, wire will count in pixels, so that the translation will go from x = -960 to 960 and y = -540 to 540. So in your example that means that the textures only move one pixel Max so you don't see the movement.

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[JBroadway]

Ahh this is very helpful thank you.

I believe the transform node holding its texture2D state even after reconnecting it to a Float is a bug no?
Once the transform node is re-connected to the linear node the transform visual out should reflect that without having to re-add the transform.

Please lmk if I'm mistaken.

[tijnisfijn]

Yes, I guess you're right about that one that should not be like that I think

[Christoph]

Yes the transform-node not switching back to shape-mode is not expected behaviour, thanks for reporting that. This should be fixed in one of the next updates.

In the meantime I noticed it seems to only break if you feed a single float into the translation-inlet (which expects a float2 but can automatically convert a single float to a float2). Little tip - you can also set the linear-node to output float2, then you have individual control over the range on both axis:

Screenshot 2023-12-20 170212.png (28.51 KiB) Viewed 12169 times

[JBroadway]

Yes the transform-node not switching back to shape-mode is not expected behaviour, thanks for reporting that. This should be fixed in one of the next updates.

In the meantime I noticed it seems to only break if you feed a single float into the translation-inlet (which expects a float2 but can automatically convert a single float to a float2). Little tip - you can also set the linear-node to output float2, then you have individual control over the range on both axis:

Screenshot 2023-12-20 170212.png

Thank you for this, looking forward to the update.