Tips & Best Practices

Recommended habits

• Tileable textures. Custom Flow produces the best results with seamless, tileable textures. Non-tileable textures will produce visible seams as the texture scrolls.
• Mask resolution and Custom Flow 3 / 4. These two channels bake their gradient at a lower internal resolution than channels 1 and 2. A bicubic resample smooths the result for most shapes. When intricate splines are authored on Custom Flow 3 or 4, increasing the mask resolution to 1024 or higher will produce a crisper bake.
• Activate channels deliberately. Channels are disabled by default. Only activate the channels that are actually used. Inactive channels incur no shader cost, because they are skipped by the _Vis* gate at the top of each pass.
• Use the eye toggle for comparison. Toggling the eye off on every channel except the one being tuned isolates its contribution without altering the asset's saved activation state.