LAB 183 / TSL + MATERIAL

Depth, carried
by a texture.

A height texture nudges the sampling coordinate against the camera direction. The surface stays flat, but the material makes the ice feel layered.

Parallax UVNodeMaterial

MATERIAL GRAPH

Inspect the illusion

UV scale 3.0 Parallax scale 0.50 Normal strength 1.00 Output auto-rotate camera normal map lighting

The official example combines a displacement sample, parallaxUV(), overlay blending, roughness, and normalMap(). This route generates the four texture roles locally.

OBSERVABILITY

path—

uv scale—

parallax—

output—

draw calls—

triangles—

frame—

shader—

1height sample → offset UV

2offset UV → layered color

3normal + roughness → light response

Initializing—

Generating local color, height, normal, and roughness textures…

LAB 183 / PARALLAX UV

Depth, carriedby a texture.

Inspect the illusion

Depth, carried
by a texture.