Shader graph output and material don't match

[restive jolt]

I have this effect, and I wanted to put it in the alpha bit as it looks correct, but it comes out weird in the material. What have I done wrong?

[oblique tide]

Might be values outside the 0-1 range, try a Saturate node to clamp

[restive jolt]

this has somehow magically fixed it lol, thank you 😄 what does saturate do , for future refrence?

[oblique tide]

Clamps the input to be between 0 and 1.
i.e.
negative input -> outputs 0
value between 0 and 1 -> same value
input above 1 -> outputs 1

[restive jolt]

awesome, thanks! i assumed that would be called a clamp function