About 'Deciding How to Mix Materials'!

[Michael_Bridges]

In this video (objectives)…

1. Decide on how to mix material properties together.
2. Have a detailed look at why we would do it one way an not another.

After watching (learning outcomes)…

Be able to make conscious decision about how to mix material properties together

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[Manu_Scheller]

My node setup so far :

[Richard_Rayer]

I know I am on the right track but I don’t seem to have set up the node group correctly to be able to change the rations of each texture in my node group. But, this was the challenge and I am showing what I did before watching the after challenge explanation.

[Richard_Rayer]

I should also show what I put in my Node Group:

[Richard_Rayer]

I haven’t finished the challenge section of the lecture yet ,but I was experimenting with what we have learned and made this version of the wood plank adding a procedural wood grain to the plank. Here is a screen print of what it looks like showing the node setup. I am still not sure how to set up the node group so that I can control the grain outside of the node group.

[Richard_Rayer]

I just wanted to show some more experimenting with Node Groups and I discovered that I could input the parameters for the Mix Ration Group to make moss as well as a Noise Texture Group to make wood grain. This way I can input the Scale and Detail of the moss and wood grain without opening the Node Group. I know that it is something that will be learned and already present in Blender but I enthusiastically found it out for myself. You know, one of those “AHA” moments!

[Richard_Rayer]

Here is the node group cleaned up after viewing the rest of this lecture.

[Carl_Gustafsson]

One mouldy plank:

Node setup:

Edit: Also experimented with material displacement and Cycles.

[Marc_Carlyon]

[bjhackne11]

Moldy Plank. Used The noise method for the grain from early in the lecture, and a magic texture to blend the gradients. Grain and mold colors are just different values of the same color blended via textures.

[bjhackne11]

Mode Setup before grouping.

[Capricas_Kirito]

[VirtuMax]

And yet another fence…

[FedPete]

I still find that creating textures (using nodes) is, for me, one of the most difficult things of Blender. Because, it’s difficult to imagine the effect a setup has, or even a single value, option. And adding more nodes, increases complexity. Slowing down this creative process.

This procedural texture, is my most complicated node configuration ever !
I understand all the interactions, combinations. But fiddling around and trying to make something interesting, is very difficult.

[ysvry]

good lesson only next time just say aloud wich keys you press as its sometimes hard to follow.

[Kyle_Manning]

I need to spend some more time tweaking the moss texture. Lots of power in nodes.

[Kyle_Manning]

Problem :

After going back and making some adjustments after cleaning up the nodes a little bit, I noticed that I can render just fine in EEVEE but not in CYCLES. I expected the opposite to be the case potentially.

Here are the screen shots of the renders and the nodes. Anyone have any idea why I can’t render in cycles?

Rendered with Cycles

Rendered with EEVEE

Nodes Setup

[FedPete]

Just more of my ideas;

• Do you use the latest version of Blender?
• Maybe a UVmap will help.
• Did you switch on or off, of some special Eevee options?

[Michael_Bridges]

I have seen a similar thing myself.

Two options wait- the shader might be building. If you have done that the delete and re add and connect the material output node.

[vi.paints]

FedPete - this is beautiful work