The compositing graph is the nodal system of the authoring tool MaPZone2, and the main part of the texture creation process.
It allows you to combine Filters fed by FX-Map, FX-Maps-Links and FX-Filters to FX-Maps.
You can then combine the result of these filters with each other or with additional FX-Maps: the possibilities are endless.

The compositing graph allows you also to define output nodes. Each output node corresponds to a bitmap that will be rendered by the ProFX2 engine at runtime in your game, and which can be used just like any regular bitmap image.

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Compositing Graph functions and shortcuts

anywhere in the Compositing Graph area to open the contextual menu or go through the "Graph" Menu.



This contextual menu offers the following items:

• New Filter : creates a new Filter in the Compositing Graph
• New FX-Map : creates a new FX-Map, FX-Map Link or FX-Filters to FX-Maps
• Add External Links... : browse the library to import an External Link
• Import... : browse the library to merge in a preset
• Pan Mode : enter Pan Mode to navigate through the Compositing Graph
• Reduce : reduces the scale of the graph display (for a quicker navigation in large graphs)
• Thumbs View : shows thumbnail images of resulting bitmaps over each node. This makes it easier to understand how a given texture is built.

to navigate in the Compositing Graph










to enter Thumbs View :







anywhere in the Compositing Graph area to open the quick panel.



More about the color code used in the default skin:

• The FX-Maps nodes are always in black.
• The smaller grey node is for FX-Filters to FX-Maps (transform any result obtain by mixing Filters into something able to feed them like a FX-Map)
• The color nodes ares for FX-Filters. ex: emboss, colorize etc...
  
• Output nodes are always in purple (e.g. Diffuse and Normal).

For more details about each type of filter node, refer to the page FX-Filters


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