#material nodes

[lynnbecksart]

Haven't slept but uhhhhh figured out how Blender's "Light Path" node works. Which turns out to be basically the opposite of how I thought it worked. Anyway here's a thing I made using it, specifically making an object's reflection in a mirror texture a different colour than the object itself.

Nodes below.

[mattoishi]

Started working on a new character this weekend!

Name TBD, let's call him Kenny for now.

Some small texture details to add later but pretty happy with how he's developing so far.

Took some extra time to figure out how to approach face expressions and animation, I at one point considered modeling the face fully but ultimately I determined that was a huge time sink for rigging and animation. So what I decided on is a texture sheet of many different expressions. some tutorials I looked up would say it's a sprite sheet.

Despite it being a straightforward method and pretty simple to setup in Blender(and certainly an old method, especially in video games if I'm not wrong) I couldn't quite find a good resource on this method, I bet there is one but not easy to google.

Anyway - eventually I will have to figure out how to swap character faces in Unity whenever I get around to importing them. and make a workflow for marking face swaps, because I don't believe the material data I animate in Blender won't import into Unity.

here's the node setup for anyone curious :)

(This of course could be setup a little better for animation in blender but for my needs I just key-framed the X Location.)

Lastly here's a little test animation!

I made this Japanese style classroom a while ago, so it was nice to just have it ready to go!

Tho it definitely needs some more props and things on the walls! Also students!

Unsure if I want him to have glasses or not. What do you think?

Excited to show more later :)

Until then peace out,

MKO~

[lynnbecksart]

Cool new thing I know how to do in Blender; normally if you get a Camera Data material node and plug the View Vector output into a texture's Vector input, it just kinda looks like the object that the texture's applied to is "cut out" of the image, with the texture showing as a flat image that stays static when panning, rotating etc.

But if you then put the View Distance output into the Scale input, the texture still stays static relative to panning, rotating etc., but it also distorts to match the contours of the object, which looks really cool in motion and is probably very useful for animators (I can't show it because you can't export video from Blender, and I don't want to have to render and then edit together like 50 pngs just to showcase a cool material).

Nodes are below for anyone who wants to try this for themselves.

Also if you want to mess with the size of the pattern, I recommend putting a Math node (set to Multiply) between the View Distance and Scale:

[lynnbecksart]

Working on a very complex render; here's the nodes for one of the materials!