# Blueprint Nodes
Carbon has several built-in blueprint nodes to facilitate drive many different parameters in a custom blueprint with DMX easily. Common use cases include translating actors, adjust material parameters (i.e. Color), triggering particle systems, and much more. See our [BP Snippets](https://knowledge.carbon.show/carbon-for-unreal/using-and-modifying-assets/user-defined-blueprints/usage-examples) for premade examples of common DMX node networks. Nodes are grouped together in the "Carbon DMX" category of blueprint nodes.
### **Parse Patch**
Splits well formatted incoming patch string into separate Universe and Channel integer values.
### **Get DMX as Integer**
Get the value of the DMX patch address and return as an integer.\
Supports 16-bit mode, channel offset, and a Min and Max range for remapping the DMX value to arbitrary output range of values (Defaults to 0-255).
### **Get DMX as Boolean (trigger)**
Treat the DMX patch address as a trigger channel. By default, outputs TRUE when channel value is greater than or equal to 127.\
Supports 16-bit mode, channel offset, and a custom threshold if a different value is desired for the channel to be considered triggered (TRUE).
### **Get DMX as Float**
Get the value of the DMX patch address and return as a floating point (decimal) number. By default, outputs a decimal from 0.0 - 1.0.\
Supports 16-bit mode, channel offset, and a Min and Max range for remapping the DMX value to arbitrary output range of decimal values (Defaults to 0.0-1.0).
### **Get DMX as Vector**
Get the value of the DMX patch address and the next two channels (3 channels 8-bit, 6 channels 16-bit) return as a 3 dimensional vector (of floats) value. No default range is defined, user must define what range each component of the vector will have.\
Supports 16-bit mode (fine channel is consecutive to the coarse channel), channel offset, and a Min and Max range for remapping the 3 DMX channels' values to arbitrary output range of decimal values for each component of the vector (X,Y,Z).\
TIP: Vector is convenient to use for any situation when a 3-tuple of values is needed, including translation, Euler rotation, combined RGB, etc. For sequencer recording it is recommended to use a Vector as the storage variable for any RGB color.
### **Get DMX as Scaled Linear Color**
Scale a Color by the percentage value of the DMX patch's value. i.e. Acts as an intensity channel for the specified Color value, channel value of 0 produces black, channel value of full outputs the color specified. Intermediate colors output a linearly interpolated value in-between.\
Supports 16-bit mode, channel offset, defining a custom color to scale, and inverting the scaling (i.e. 0 outputs full intensity color, full outputs black).\
TIP: Use four nodes to map arbitrary color channels (i.e. R+G+B+Amber), then add the outputs for a custom DMX Color Mix functionality.
