Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook - Third Edition

Creating a simple ground material using procedural textures

In this recipe, we will create a basic, raw ground material as shown in this screenshot:

The ground material as it appears in the final rendering

Getting ready

Start Blender and switch to Cycles Render. Then perform the following steps:

1. Delete the default Cube and add a Plane. Go to Edit Mode and scale it 15 times bigger (30 units per side; press Tab, then press S, enter the digit 15, and press Enter). Go out of Edit Mode.
2. Go to the Object modifiers window and assign a Subdivision Surface modifier to the Plane. Switch from Catmull-Clark to Simple, and set the levels of Subdivisions for both ...