The Shape Mapper node

With the help of the Shape Mapper node, you can control and modify any existing Shape node, Star node, or other similar nodes. The Shape Mapper node manipulates your existing shape into a Circle or Polygon form using other INSTANCE PARAMETERS settings.

Let us do some experiments on our existing Star node:

1. Add the Shape Mapper node in the GRAPH window, and then connect the Quad Transform Grayscale node’s output to the Shape Mapper node’s input and the Shape Mapper node’s output to the Blend node’s Opacity input, as shown in Figure 8.59:

Figure 8.59 – Adding the Shape Mapper node

2. The final output of the Shape Mapper node will look similar to Figure 8.60. However, you can change the Shape Mapper node’s INSTANCE PARAMETERS settings if you want a different result:

Figure 8.60 – The Shape Mapper node’s final output

I hope it is now clear...