Over 40 practical recipes to create stunning materials and textures using the Cycles rendering engine with Blender About This BookCreate realistic material shaders by understanding the fundamentals of material creation in CyclesQuickly make impressive projects production-ready using the Blender rendering engineDiscover step-by-step material recipes with complete diagrams of nodesWho This Book Is ForThis book is aimed at those familiar with the basics of Blender, looking to delve into the depths of the Cycles rendering engine to create an array of breath-taking materials and textures.What You Will Learn Create a basic Cycles material by mixing the shader components Connect nodes of different kinds to build more advanced materials Add node-based textures to the shaders Create both simple and complex materials following step-by-step recipes Switch the shader components easily without affecting a possibly complex network of links Parent and rename the nodes to better organize the Node Editor window Build material interfaces for general use in complex materials by grouping the shaders inside groups Set up light sources and world global illumination In DetailBlender is the graphics software of choice for designers and media professionals alike. This book will teach you how to utilize the power of the Blender 2.7 series to create a wide variety of materials, textures, and effects with the Cycles rendering engine. You will learn about node-based shader creation, and master cycles through step-by-step, recipe-based advice. With this book, you will start small by rendering the textures of stones and water, then scale things up to massive landscapes of mountains and oceans. You will then learn how to create the look of different artificial materials such as plastic, carpenter wood, and metal, and utiliz

Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook, Third Edition PDF

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