Nodes · Blacksmith

BS_Disintegrate

Blacksmithv3core

Overview

One infection-time field drives every stage, so the body, the chunks, the dust, the glow and the reveal cannot disagree about when a pixel goes. Wire the plate and a subject alpha, set a start and a duration, and pick how the front travels.

How to

Wire in and matte; wire bg too if you have a cleanplate.
Set start and duration (or key progress).
Choose the front mode, then shape it with raggedness and noise_scale.
Turn on smoke, embers or shimmer only if the shot wants them — all three cost a sim.

Inputs

Input	What it takes
in	the image this node works on
matte	the alpha that drives this node
bg	a clean background to reveal (optional — without one the node estimates it and says so)

Outputs

Output	Type
out	Image

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	What it does
progress	Float	-1	Not documented yet.
start	Float	1	Not documented yet.
duration	Float	48	Not documented yet.
directional	Float	1	Not documented yet.
direction	Float	0	Not documented yet.
edge_in	Float	0	Not documented yet.
core_out	Float	0	Not documented yet.
blotch	Float	0	Not documented yet.
spread_rate	Float	0	Not documented yet.
raggedness	Float	0.3	Not documented yet.
noise_scale	Float	24	Not documented yet.
detail	Int	3	Not documented yet.
seed	Int	1	Not documented yet.
edge_width	Float	6	Not documented yet.
smear	Float	0	Not documented yet.
chunks	Float	1	Not documented yet.
chunk_size	Float	24	Not documented yet.
chunk_lag	Float	1	Not documented yet.
wind	Float2	[0.6, -0.4]	Not documented yet.
tumble	Float	0.06	Not documented yet.
dust	Choice	drift	Not documented yet.
dust_rate	Float	0.4	Not documented yet.
dust_budget	Int	50_000	Not documented yet.
glow	Float	1	Not documented yet.
glow_color	Color	[1.0, 0.55, 0.15, 1.0]	Not documented yet.
smoke	Float	0	Not documented yet.
smoke_rise	Float	0.25	Not documented yet.
smoke_dissipate	Float	0.035	Not documented yet.
embers	Float	0	Not documented yet.
ember_flicker	Float	0.6	Not documented yet.
shimmer	Float	0	Not documented yet.
shimmer_scale	Float	24	Not documented yet.
inpaint	Bool	true	Not documented yet.
reveal_window	Int	2	Not documented yet.
status	Text	String::new(	Not documented yet.

Layers

disint.body
disint.chunks
disint.dust
disint.smoke
disint.embers
disint.glow
disint.band
disint.reveal
disint.front
motion

Known edges

The media sims re-run from start each frame, capped at 240 frames and reported when capped. The subject alpha input is called matte, not mask: mask is the engine's universal mask-the-effect slot and would blend the result back toward the plate by the very alpha being dissolved.

Since

27 Aug 2026