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Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook, Third Edition

By : Enrico Valenza
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Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook, Third Edition

By: Enrico Valenza

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Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook, Third Edition
Enrico Valenza
Feb, 2015 | 400 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook Third Edition
Blender Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Overview of Materials in Cycles
Overview of Materials in Cycles
Introduction
Material nodes in Cycles
Procedural textures in Cycles
Setting the World material
Creating a mesh-light material
Using volume materials
Using displacement
2
Managing Cycles Materials
Managing Cycles Materials
Introduction
Preparing an ideal Cycles interface for material creation
Naming materials and textures
Creating node groups
Grouping nodes under frames for easier reading
Linking materials and node groups
3
Creating Natural Materials in Cycles
Creating Natural Materials in Cycles
Introduction
Creating a rock material using image maps
Creating a rock material using procedural textures
Creating a sand material using procedural textures
Creating a simple ground material using procedural textures
Creating a snow material using procedural textures
Creating an ice material using procedural textures
4
Creating Man-made Materials in Cycles
Creating Man-made Materials in Cycles
Introduction
Creating a generic plastic material
Creating a Bakelite material
Creating an expanded polystyrene material
Creating a clear (glassy) polystyrene material
Creating a rubber material
Creating an antique bronze material with procedurals
Creating a multipurpose metal node group
Creating a rusty metal material with procedurals
Creating a wood material with procedurals
5
Creating Complex Natural Materials in Cycles
Creating Complex Natural Materials in Cycles
Introduction
Creating an ocean material using procedural textures
Creating underwater environment materials
Creating a snowy mountain landscape with procedurals
Creating a realistic Earth as seen from space
6
Creating More Complex Man-made Materials
Creating More Complex Man-made Materials
Introduction
Creating cloth materials with procedurals
Creating a leather material with procedurals
Creating a synthetic sponge material with procedurals
Creating a spaceship hull shader
7
Subsurface Scattering in Cycles
Subsurface Scattering in Cycles
Introduction
Using the Subsurface Scattering shader node
Simulating Subsurface Scattering in Cycles using the Translucent shader
Simulating Subsurface Scattering in Cycles using the Vertex Color tool
Simulating Subsurface Scattering in Cycles using the Ray Length output in the Light Path node
Creating a fake Subsurface Scattering node group
8
Creating Organic Materials
Creating Organic Materials
Introduction
Creating an organic-looking shader with procedurals
Creating a wasp-like chitin material with procedural textures
Creating a beetle-like chitin material with procedural textures
Creating tree shaders – the bark
Creating tree shaders – the leaves
Creating a layered human skin material in Cycles
Creating fur and hair
Creating a gray alien skin material with procedurals
9
Special Materials
Special Materials
Introduction
Using Cycles volume materials
Creating a cloud volumetric material
Creating a fire and smoke shader
Creating a shadeless material in Cycles
Creating a fake immersion effect material
Creating a fake volume light material
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Romain Caudron is a French 3D modeler and game designer passionate about Blender and ZBrush. He has worked on jewellery design, short film animation, and independent video games. He has mostly self-learned for his career, but he studied 3D animation with CGITrainer. Romain received a master's degree in cinema and game design from Paul Valéry University, Montpellier III, France. You can check out his most recent work at www.romain-caudron.net.

John E. Herreño is 31 years old. At the early age of 13, he developed a curiosity for the "magical" things that modern digital computers can do. He graduated as an electronics engineer from the National University of Colombia. This helped him understand how computers are built, and he studied some principles of software development himself to understand how to get the most out of them. John became interested in Blender 3D after finding version 1.72 in a CD inside a magazine he bought for a different reason, and he has been learning it since then from the awesome community of users on Internet forums and tutorials. Today, he's highly convinced of the power of open source software and the business models around it to improve the general quality of life in developing countries.

Above all, he's just a human being who wants to know and serve Jesus Christ.

John authored Blender 2.5 Hotshot, Packt Publishing, which was published in 2011. Currently, he spends entire days on web development with Drupal.

Sanu Vamanchery Mana is a 3D artist from India with over 16 years of experience in the fields of animation, gaming, and special effects. He is a lecturer on interactive media design and animation at Dhofar University, Salalah, Oman. In this role, he has run many workshops, training sessions, and presentations in many countries in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He was the reviewer of two books on Blender by Packt Publishing.

Sanu has worked on gaming projects such as GoldenEye 007 (Electronic Arts), Neopets (Sony Entertainment), and World Series of Poker (Sony Entertainment). He has also worked on the short movie JackFrost, which was nominated for a BAFTA award.

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