LayerMaterial should create it's base by default about lamina HOT 4 CLOSED

The <Base /> layer is more of a <Color /> layer. It provides a nice solid color. This is useful to, for example, darken a given material. You could do:

<Base color="black" alpha={0.3} />

Or fi you want to give something a specific tint.

Maybe we should rename <Base /> to <Color />

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<Base color="black" alpha={0.3} />

Maybe we should rename <Base /> to <Color />

I REALLY like the concept of a Color and agree that Base would be one, but the concept of it being a "base" is important

Many layers (Noise, displacement, etc) require a base color to be set and it's often something people mess up and get confused/frustrated when the stack doesn't seem to be "working"

One method is to require that a ColorLayer (or one that satisfies the requirement) be present somewhere in the stack, order being irrelevant.

<LayerMaterial>
    <Nosie />
    <Color value="red" mode="multiply" />
    <Texture />
</LayerMaterial>

A 100% opaque Color will block the alpha values of subsequent color layers like Gradient

<LayerMaterial>
    <Color value="red" />
    <Texture />
    <Gradient type=”circular” colors={[rgba(0,0,0,100), rgba(0,0,0,0)] />
</LayerMaterial>

So if one is present and not otherwise called, the base should be ignored

But I think the biggest things are

1. if people forget to define it defauting to the most likely need keeps the stack safe:

<LayerMaterial>
    <!-- baseline <Color value="black" /> -->
    <Texture />
</LayerMaterial>

2. Keeps things cleaner when doing simple colors:

const [baseColor, setBaseColor] = useState('#32A0CF');
<LayerMaterial color={baseColor}>
    <Texture mode="screen" />
</LayerMaterial>

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Yeah that sounds good to me. Having a color prop on the layer material itself could be the "base" color. And we could rename <Base /> to <Color /> Like this:

<LayerMaterial color="lightblue"> 👈 Base color
    <Noise mode="screen" />
    <Color color="red" mode="multiply" /> 👈 Give the noise red tint
</LayerMaterial>

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Addressed in 1.1.0

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