There are numerous methods for improving the organizational structure of your node trees when you begin created highly complex materials. One great method is to take an entire section of nodes and store them in a type of border referred to as a frame. To add a frame to your material setup, press the hokey … Read more
It is perhaps one of the most daunting tasks for a 3D artist, creating materials using a node system. Certainly more technical of a workflow than it is artistic, but fortunately there is an addon that makes working with nodes so much easier, and that is the node wrangler. Below is a shortlist of 8 … Read more
Creating basic materials is really easy in Blender, but creating more complex materials takes a lot of time and work. It can take a lot more when your node setups are poorly organized, as you need to have a solid understanding of the role that each node has for your material. The following tools allow … Read more
If you want to set up very basic materials in Blender, then you only need to use the materials tab in the properties panel in order to create those simple materials. But if you want more control over your materials and how they are applied to your model, then you will need to learn how … Read more
You want to create a glass material for your game project and are using the Eevee render engine in Blender to preview your materials. But you come across a problem, the glass shader that you created does not behave like glass at all in the rendered view. So how do you fix this? To create … Read more
You create new material for your object but all you have is a single color, but you want to add a pattern or a texture to that material so it looks right, and you’re not really sure how. you find a cool texture online but you have no idea how to apply this 2D image … Read more