About 'Finish Off Our Plank'!

[Michael_Bridges]

In this lecture we combine everything we have learn over the last few lecture to finish off the plank of wood

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[Manu_Scheller]

My Plank:

[Richard_Rayer]

This was pretty easy to follow. I like how you explain what you are doing and that there are always other options and ways of doing things and no one way is always correct. You do that a lot in your courses and I appreciate that. It reminds me that there is always more ways to look at a problem and the solutions don’t always have to be the same.

In my plank, I tried to add a voronoi texture to the moss using a color ramp. It didn’t seem to be as effective as I wanted. I also put a noise texture in as a bump map for the wood.

It was hard to really see the results when rendered because the resolution of the render was very low. I checked in the Output Data tab which seems to be new for setting the Resolution of an image and the Resolution was set to 1920px by 1080px at 100%. When I look closely at the plank image It starts to show pixels and jagged lines the closer I get. I tried in both Eevee Render and Cycles Render and neither looked any better than the other.

Cycles Render

Eevee Render

[Richard_Rayer]

Okay, after the challenge lecture section was really helpful in getting the bump on the moss to show better than what I did before. I forgot about the mapping node. Using that on the noise texture made a lot of difference to the result of the moss looking a little more, well, mossy!

I still don’t like the resolution of the plank image. It just doesn’t look sharp enough.

[Carl_Gustafsson]

I really like the textures. And yes, I too have noticed that textures in Eevee sometimes have “low resolution”. I wonder if there is a setting somewhere that I have missed?
If you increase the Samples in Cycles, I think you will get an even better result there.

[Carl_Gustafsson]

Here is my finished plank.
Eevee:

Cycles:

[bjhackne11]

Final Plank

[Capricas_Kirito]

[Natalia]

[FedPete]

Still a difficult process. But I learn as I go …

Added note: Rendering in Cycles, give me this white version.
No clue what is happening. In LookDev I have colors. But not in Render preview or cycles. Switching back to Eevee, colours are back.

Note 2. Tested in Blender June 20th (latest version at this moment) no solution.

[Jaco_Pretorius]

Wanted to make a fence and have each plank unique, so the idea of modeling every plank seemed ridiculous… So, I combined the displacement knowledge from making the rock field and created 2 displacement modifiers driven by a magic texture for the local X and Z displacements. The Array modifier had to go before these displacement modifiers, but I would be get similar behavior if it were to follow a curve.
Not getting the nice deep notches, but it was a good-enough compromise:

My texture co-ordinate setup required a separation of the local object co-ordinates and the Object location Co-ordinate so I don’t lose control of the moss-mask if the fence were to follow terrain. I did this by adding the two co-ordinates together. This gives each plank a unique texture and unique moss-mask.

[Carl_Gustafsson]

Adding the coordinates! Did not think of that - great idea!

[vi.paints]

Had to go with the icecream bar (popsicle). This plank series was excellent, I appreciated the break out and step-by-step as it went fairly smoothly - when I followed along. Of course when I tried to replicate from scratch without looking at the tutorials I found it was not as easy!

With a little more tweaking you may find the popsicle material useful.

[smackadoosh]

[ADITYA_SAHU]

I Haven’t Made Plank
But Here Is What I Came Up With

Complete Procedural Texture On Simple Sphere Animated (Freezing Planet)

A Freezing Planet
I Am Overall Satisfied With It
But Not With Snow Texture That Can Be Improved
But I Dropped That Idea Cuz This 6 Sec Animation Took More Than An hour To Render

[gchow83]

[Cardenio]

It really proves the power of the generated textures that everybody here had such different looking planks lol.

[DANB1]

Finish plank

[lLewis]

[djTomServo]

This one was fun, and I’m definitely starting to see a lot of possibilities for baking in-game textures from these procedural networks. I think I’ll challenge myself to do a whole scene with baked procedurals for one of my prototypes. Good stuff!