TEXTURE MIXING IN VUE

A neat trick in Vue, is to mix several texture images, to hide any overlap or repetition.
This is very useful on landscapes, rocks and such like.

Say you have several pictures of bark or rock. If you used an image to cover an entire terrain, odds are high it would lack enough resolution or it would show areas where it didn't tile perfectly.
See picture below

Obviously, this image is far too large in scale for this terrain, and looks obviously like bark, not some kind of landscape material.

So what happens when you scale the textures down?
As you can see, the repeating, non-tiling images cause obvious bands that look fake.
But there is a way to avoid this!

By using a rotate and twist function in the function editor, you can warp the original textures before blending, creating more organic blends and patterns, like the image below shows:

This is that texture applied to the base of a simple terrain and given an ecosystem. It looks much more "organic and natural"

However, note the Ground Plane, which has the exact same material applied, but looks "stripey" and bad. It's because the ground plane is an infinitely sized object and the rotate & twist function won't work on it.