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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

Creating a layered human skin material in Cycles

In this recipe, we will create a layered skin material by using the open-content character Sintel.

Sintel is the main character of the third open movie of the same name produced by the Blender Foundation; the Sintel character and all the other movie assets are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). The following screenshot is of Sintel's face:

Sintel's face in the final rendering

Getting ready

Start Blender and open the 9931OS_08_skin_start.blend file, where there is an already set scene with the Sintel character standing on a Plane, a Sun lamp, and a Camera.

Except for Sintel's body skin, all the other mesh objects have either gesso-like materials or eyes already assigned.

How to do it...

Let's start with the layered skin shader creation:

  1. Be sure to have the Sintel object selected, and then click on the New button in the Node Editor window toolbar or in the Material window under...

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