#node editor

[manny-mg]

Setting the materials

Since Blender 2.79 there is the “Principled BSDF shader” that simplifies the nodes setting quite a bit:

The inputs we will generally use are:

-Base color: usually an image texture, generated or file.

-Metallic: to determine whether the material is metallic or not (1 or 0).

-Roughness: this determines how soft or shiny the reflections will be.

-Normal: here we plug a bump map, generated or file.

Source: the great Blender Guru

[cf-12]

[srsdanny]

Coffee mug with trippy backdrop

As a first splash into materials and rendering with Cycles I spruced up my previous render of a coffee mug.

The mug has a white porcelain material which I found after some searching on the web and the material of the backdrop is the result of me messing around with Blender’s Node Editor with only a slight clue as to what I was doing (despite the Computer Graphics course I had some time ago... *sigh*).

So all in all editing materials for the first time with the Node Editor was kind of scary but in the end it was fun. I mean... just look at this! Is it not kind of scary?

[manny-mg]

Hey guys, I made a chair!

This procedural wood texture tutorial was really helpful.

In order to align the texture to some of the pieces, some basic UV-mapping was required.

[manny-mg]

More material testing in Blender!

I just love the noise texture: it seems you can do almost anything with it : )

The brick textures are too perfect, too defined. I need to find a way to “randomize” them a little bit

[darkfallstudio-blog]

Copse Cove (Tutorial Result)

In the next video we will be composing another Digital Matte Painting : Copse Cove, and here is the result. I had a pretty clear image in mind and went off t...

[manny-mg]

I’ve been studying the topic of texturing. There are tons of resources out there, but I find the tutorials of Andrew Price to be priceless (no pun intended).

This image is meant to be a wall - a plaster-like texture. It’s not very interesting but I hope that the following updates will get better :P

Blender’s approach to texturing is based on a node editor that is used to describe how the light would react to the object. From what I gather, most materials can be made as a composition of two shaders: a diffuse shader, which is essentially the base color, and a glossy shader, which tells the amount of light that is reflected of the object’s surface (i.e. how shiny it is). How that composition is made is defined by the specularity map, the diffuse color is defined by an image texture - in this case a procedurally generated texture, based on a noise texture image, and the actual texture of the surface is defined is defined by a bump map (or a normal map, but I don’t know how to make those yet). In this case, another noise-based procedural texture. 

[sketchpunklabs]

So over the weekend I had a need to make this UI. Always wanted to try making something like this but seeing one bit of code gave me the inspiration to give it a good ol’try to see how it’ll turn out. I’m pretty pleased with the initial results. Need to go back to working on my game, but this was a fun exercise in UI development.

The source is free for anyone who needs such a thing or just want to look at code as an example of one way to handle such a thing. Would be cool to see what people would do with it. https://github.com/sketchpunk/NEditorJS