About 'Procedural Study Spheres'!

[Michael_Bridges]

In this video (objectives)…

1. Using some basic spheres
2. Build up a small collection of studies
3. Use a mixture of generated and baked textures

After watching (learning outcomes)…

Have a better understanding of what the generated textures look like.

(Unique Video Reference: 7_PW_BEC)

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[Manu_Scheller]

Procedural Spheres :

[Richard_Rayer]

This was fun. I did notice that you can really add up the vertices count if you don’t keep an eye on the subdivision surface when you are playing around. Luckily, I did not have a crash thanks to your comments about being careful! The lecture was well presented and I found no problems in understanding what was said.

Here are my cube to sphere displaced textures. And every little tweak of the settings made many differences.

[Carl_Gustafsson]

Reeeallly nice spheres above!
Here are mine.

[Stephen_Jenkins]

Coloured mine in

[Marc_Carlyon]

[Capricas_Kirito]

[bjhackne11]

Here are my study spheres.

[VirtuMax]

With this challenge I started to ask myself: “Is it possible to complete the fun of playing with modifiers to make a simple finished image that can be shown to friends etc.” Kind of simple efforts to get an instant WOW effect. So used some textures and shaders - both my own and freebies I found around, HDRI maps, lights, camera placement etc. And here what I come up with:

1. A porcelain fern flower
2. Art iShock
3. Space object QN-5931
   Photoshop used only to combine objects in one image and minimize the size of upload.

[Michael_Bridges]

Those are amazing examples!

[Keith_Scholes]

Another set of spheres:

[t0mekk]

just few of them

[FedPete]

It was fun, but it led to some crashes.

[Rina_Bothma]

Now I have a craving for chocolate! Nice.

[Rina_Bothma]

Very enjoyable and fun to make. No crashes at all

[ysvry]

[ysvry]

there was an inclarity with what modifier to aply as he didnt say wich one , but on the whole it was a great lesson.

[Jaco_Pretorius]

From here:
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.80/editors/texture_node/introduction.html
This was sad:
“Note: The texture node system is legacy and will be replaced soon by a new system. Due to this, the manual is not up to date with the latest version of Blender.”
I could not get the texture node editor to do anything, which kinda limits displacement to the flavors available in the texture “Type” drop-down…

[Kyle_Manning]

[Heng_Sunnaro]