Introduction to Blender 3.0: Learn Organic and Architectural Modeling, Lighting, Materials, Painting, Rendering, and Compositing with Blender

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G. MoioliIntroduction to Blender 3.0https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7954-0_4

4. Understanding Materials, Lighting, and World Settings

Gianpiero Moioli¹  

(1)

Milano, Italy

 

This chapter will explain how to make materials and textures, assign them to objects, and adequately illuminate the scene to create the environment.

First, we will build a node material; second, we will assign the textures, setting the color and other physical characteristics such as reflection, specularity, and roughness. To get a correct distribution of the textures on the objects, we must perform UV unwrapping and choose the mapping based on the object’s shape. So we will add the lights, ...