Multi-Output Nodes

A multi-output node exposes more than one output port, each carrying different data derived from the same computation. Because every port comes from a single evaluation, the outputs always agree with each other: a cell-color map and a distance map taken from one Voronoi node describe the same scatter, and an ambient occlusion map and a bent normal from one Surface Detail node can never disagree about radius.

Seven node types do this. Each is listed below with its ports; full parameter tables live on the linked reference pages.

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A multi-output node on the canvas showing several output sockets, with two of them wired to different consumers.

Voronoi

Type id: voronoi_noise. See Generators.

Output	Carries
Cells	Flat random fill per region with dark walls between them; the default output.
F1 Distance	Distance to the nearest seed point, normalized so the ramp spans 0 to 1 whatever the scale.
Edge Distance	Distance to the nearest region boundary: black exactly on the boundary, rising into the region. The classic crack and edge mask. It is a true boundary distance, not an F2−F1 approximation, and it is the same distance the Cells port cuts its walls from, so the two round and thicken together.
Cell Color	A random RGB color, flat-filled per region.
Cell Position	The owning seed point’s location, flat-filled per region. Feeds per-region gradients and warps.
Cell ID	A stable random gray per region, for driving per-region variation.

Brick

Type id: brick. See Generators.

Output	Carries
Bricks	The brick faces, each shaded with its own random tone; the default output.
Mortar	The exact complement of the brick mask, so the two never leave a hairline gap or overlap along the bevel.
Cell ID	A stable random gray per brick, for per-brick color or roughness variation.
Cell UV	The position within each brick, 0 to 1 on each axis, carried in red and green. Wire it into a gradient or a sampler to place something inside every brick.

Tile Sampler

Type id: tile_sampler. See Generators.

Output	Carries
Pattern	The composited scatter; the default output.
Instance ID	A stable identifier for the tile owning each pixel.
Random Value	That tile’s random value, for driving per-instance variation downstream.
Position	The owning tile’s center position.

Frequency Split

Type id: high_pass. See Filters.

Output	Carries
High Pass	Detail finer than the radius, centered on mid-gray (0.5 means no deviation from the local average), which drops straight into an Overlay or Add blend.
Low Pass	The broad structure that was subtracted; this is the blur the high pass removed.

Edge Detect

Type id: edge_detect. See Filters.

Output	Carries
Magnitude	Bright where the input has an edge, dark on flat areas.
Direction	The direction each edge runs, encoded in red and green centered on 0.5 exactly like a normal or flow map, so it feeds Warp, Vector Morph and Rotate’s Vector mode unchanged. It is normalized, so a faint edge still reports a usable direction; strength is Magnitude’s job.

Surface Detail

Type id: ao_from_height. See Normal.

Output	Carries
Occlusion	Classic ambient occlusion, dark where the neighborhood stands above the point.
Thickness	How enclosed the point is, sampled at double the radius: bright in troughs with material all around, dark on exposed ridges. Drives subsurface and translucency masks.
Bent Normal	The average unoccluded direction encoded as a normal map, so cavities self-shadow correctly when lit along it.

Height Blend

Type id: height_blend. See Blend.

Output	Carries
Height	The two inputs merged by height so the taller surface wins; the default output.
Blend Mask	B’s share of the blend, which is the height-sorted boundary itself. Feed it to ordinary Blend nodes so the matching base color, roughness and normal layers composite along the same interlocking seam. Re-deriving that boundary with a Threshold would not line up.