Blender Documentation: Last modified September 22 2003 S68
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# Noise

The noise function allows you to displace vertices in meshes based on the grey-values of a texture. That way you can generate great landscapes or carve text into meshes.

Figure 47. Subdivide tool

Add a plane and subdivide it at least five times with the special menu WKEY->Subdivide (Figure 47). Now add a material and assign a Clouds-texture to it. Adjust the `NoiseSize:` to 0.500. Choose white as the color for the material and black as the texture color, that will give us a good contrast for the noise operation.

Figure 48. Noise button in EditButtons

Ensure that you are in EditMode and all vertices are selected and switch to the EditButtons F9. Press the `Noise` button (Figure 48) several times until the landscape looks nice. Figure 49 shows the original - textured - plane as well as what happens as you press `Noise`. You should remove the texture from the landscape now because it will disturb the look. You can now add some lights, maybe some water, set smooth and SubSurf the terrain, etc. (Figure 50).

Figure 49. Noise application process

Figure 50. Noise generated landscape

Beware that the noise displacement always occurs along the mesh's z co-ordinate, that is along the direction of the z axis of the Object local reference.

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