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Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook - Third Edition

Name: Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook - Third Edition
Author: Enrico Valenza
ISBN: 9781784399931

by Enrico Valenza

February 2015

Intermediate to advanced

400 pages

9h 22m

English

Packt Publishing

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Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook Third Edition
Table of Contents
Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book

Who this book is for
Sections
Getting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example codeDownloading the color images of this bookErrataPiracyQuestions
1. Overview of Materials in Cycles
Introduction
Material nodes in Cycles
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See also
Procedural textures in Cycles
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See also
Setting the World material
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Creating a mesh-light material
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Using volume materials
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Using displacement
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
2. Managing Cycles Materials
Introduction
Preparing an ideal Cycles interface for material creation
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Naming materials and textures
Getting readyHow to do it...There's more...
Creating node groups
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Grouping nodes under frames for easier reading
Getting readyHow to do it...
Linking materials and node groups
How to do it...There's more...
3. Creating Natural Materials in Cycles
Introduction
Creating a rock material using image maps
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Creating a rock material using procedural textures
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating a sand material using procedural textures
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Creating a simple ground material using procedural textures
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating a snow material using procedural textures
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating an ice material using procedural textures
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
4. Creating Man-made Materials in Cycles
Introduction
Creating a generic plastic material
Getting ready...How to do it...How it works...
Creating a Bakelite material
Getting ready...How to do it...How it works...There's more...
Creating an expanded polystyrene material
Getting ready...How to do it...How it works...
Creating a clear (glassy) polystyrene material
Getting ready...How to do it...
Creating a rubber material
Getting ready...How to do it...How it works...
Creating an antique bronze material with procedurals
Getting ready...How to do it...How it works...
Creating a multipurpose metal node group
Getting ready...How to do it...How it works...
Creating a rusty metal material with procedurals
Getting ready...How to do it...How it works...There's more...
Creating a wood material with procedurals
Getting ready...How to do it...How it works...
5. Creating Complex Natural Materials in Cycles
Introduction
Creating an ocean material using procedural textures
Getting readyHow to do it...Creating the water surface and the bottom shadersCreating the foam shaderCreating the stencil material for the foam locationPutting everything togetherHow it works...See also
Creating underwater environment materials
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating a snowy mountain landscape with procedurals
Getting readyHow to do it...Appending and grouping the rock and the snow shaderMixing the material groupsCreating the stencil shaderAdding the atmospheric perspectiveHow it works...
Creating a realistic Earth as seen from space
Getting readyHow to do it...The planet surfaceThe cloudsThe atmosphereHow it works...
6. Creating More Complex Man-made Materials
Introduction
Creating cloth materials with procedurals
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See also
Creating a leather material with procedurals
How to do it...How it works...
Creating a synthetic sponge material with procedurals
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating a spaceship hull shader
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See also
7. Subsurface Scattering in Cycles
Introduction
Using the Subsurface Scattering shader node
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
Simulating Subsurface Scattering in Cycles using the Translucent shader
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Simulating Subsurface Scattering in Cycles using the Vertex Color tool
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Simulating Subsurface Scattering in Cycles using the Ray Length output in the Light Path node
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating a fake Subsurface Scattering node group
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
8. Creating Organic Materials
Introduction
Creating an organic-looking shader with procedurals
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating a wasp-like chitin material with procedural textures
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating a beetle-like chitin material with procedural textures
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating tree shaders – the bark
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Creating tree shaders – the leaves
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Creating a layered human skin material in Cycles
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating fur and hair
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See also
Creating a gray alien skin material with procedurals
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
9. Special Materials
Introduction
Using Cycles volume materials
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See also
Creating a cloud volumetric material
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating a fire and smoke shader
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
Creating a shadeless material in Cycles
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
Creating a fake immersion effect material
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...
Creating a fake volume light material
Getting readyHow to do it...How it works...See also
Index

Content preview from Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook - Third Edition

Creating node groups

Single nodes (shaders, textures, input, or whatever) can be grouped together, and this is probably one of the best ways to organize our workflow.

Thanks to node groups, it's easy to store complex materials in ready-to-use libraries. It's possible to share or reuse them in other files, and they can also be used to build handy shader interfaces for easier tweaking of material properties.

Getting ready

Start Blender and open the 9931OS_02_interface.blend file.

How to do it...

Let's go to the Node Editor window directly:

Now box-select (place the mouse cursor in the Node Editor window, press B, and click and drag a box to include the nodes you want to select) the Diffuse BSDF and the Glossy BSDF nodes, as shown in this screenshot:

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