Blender material preview scene
Official “Blender-ball” scene for materials preview/demonstration.
How to get all collectons list
To get a list of collections with all internal collections, we can use the following function:
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def collections(collection, col_list): col_list.append(collection) for sub_collection in collection.children: collections(sub_collection, col_list) |
How to randomly shift texture on objects
To shift the texture randomly on different objects, the easiest way is to change its location along any of the axes by a random value.
Random Per Island
In Blender 2.82 we can get a random index of UV islands in the Shader Editor through the “Geometry” node
Works only for the “Cycles’ render engine.
Global materials override for the Blender EEVEE render engine
Some times we need to make a render of the scene with the single material, for example, for clay or wireframe renders. Blender has the global materials override option for the Cycles render engine in the “View Layer Properties” – “Override” but not for the EEVEE render engine.
Quick materials override for the EEVEE rendering engine can be made with a small script, as shown in the following video:
Script and video by Vitaly Sokol.
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Blender 2.90 alpha
Blender 2.90 alpha is now available in daily builds for download on the official Blender site.
How to tune the camera height in the “walk” mode
To change the camera height in the “walk/fly” mode in the 3D Viewport window (enables with shift + ` keycode), you need to on the “Gravity” checkbox in the “Preferences” window – “Navigation” and tune the height with the “View Height” parameter.
How to enable gradient background in the viewport window
To enable gradient background in the “3D View” window you need:
- open the “Preferences” window
- press the “Themes” button
- in the “3D View” – “Theme Space” -” Gradient Colors” section on the “Use Gradient” checkbox
- and tune the gradient colors “Gradient HighOff” (top color) and “Gradient Low” (bottom color)
- press the “Save Preferences” button to save changes
Base PBR-materials scheme
The basic scheme for making a PBR (physically based) node shader in Blender looks like as follows:
Note that all the “ImageTexture” nodes, except for the “Base Color” node, use the “NonColor” colorspace.
Blender Add-On Template generator v.1.3.0.
Blender add-on template generator updated to version 1.3.0.
- Blender 2.83 template added
- For 2.82 and 2.83 templates, added reload functional by pressing the F8 key.
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