Adding color to the key holder

In this recipe we will learn how to use a color texture inside a material. We will also learn a really interesting technique to make the material more realistic and "live".

Getting ready

As you will have probably noticed our key holder has the shape of the Blender logo. Of course we cannot have just the shape, we need to add proper colorization!

How to do it...

To effectively use a color texture, we need to follow these steps:

  1. First of all let's add the colors of the Blender logo to it. In the node editor add a new Image Texture node and a Texture Coordinate node. Also, for these textures we will use the UV coordinates.
  2. Now link the Color output of the Image Texture node to the Color input of the Translucent BSDF node. ...

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