Reference / Effects / Compositing
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Repeat end
Repeat end is a Compositing effect.
What it does
Section titled “What it does”Repeat end runs the boxes wired between a Repeat start and itself Times times, and shows the result. It is a box in a node graph composition and is not offered on a layer’s stack. A wire out of the boxes between the two may only go into the Repeat end, and the graph refuses any other. A pair may sit inside another. Each pair is drawn with a frame round it.
A graph stops adding times past 4,096 steps.
Parameters
Section titled “Parameters”| Parameter | Control | Range | Default | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| For | Dropdown | Times · Each point · Each path | Times | - |
| Times | Slider, whole numbers | 0 to 64; up to 4096 | 4 | - |
| Mode | Dropdown | Feedback · Copies | Feedback | - |
| Blend | Dropdown | Normal · Darken · Multiply · Colour burn · Linear burn · Darker colour · Add · Lighten · Screen · Colour dodge · Lighter colour · Overlay · Soft light · Hard light · Linear light · Vivid light · Pin light · Hard mix · Difference · Exclusion · Subtract · Divide · Hue · Saturation · Colour · Luminosity | Normal | - |
In the Effect Controls panel:
- Times is editable while For is set to Times.
- Blend is editable while Mode is set to Copies.
What each control does
Section titled “What each control does”- For: Times runs the boxes Times times. Each point runs them once for each point on the Repeat start’s Points socket, and Each path once for each path on its Shapes socket.
- Times: how many times the boxes run. At 0 the Repeat start’s picture is shown as it arrived.
- Mode: Feedback runs each time on the picture the time before made. Copies runs each time on the Repeat start’s picture and lays every time over the ones before it, the first at the bottom.
- Blend: how each copy is laid over the ones before it. Copies only.