For some toon shaders, it can be difficult to set up good reflections. the principle of non-realistic shading prevents the scene lighting from being processed correctly.
However, in the EEVEE render engine, we can set up fake reflections for toon shaders, which will look good and render quickly.
When the scene is lighted with “Spot” or “Point” light sources, the rays from such lamps do not propagate in parallel. This makes noticeable distortion, for example when lighting with textures.
The parallel ray’s propagation (orthogonally to its plane) we can get from the “Sun” lamp, but such light source does not support lightning with textures.
A two-part tutorial on how Vector Displacement works in Blender, how to use it in practice, and how to create geometry using only the Shader Editor nodes.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Autron: Erin Woodford
Detailed time-lapse about creating a procedural cup of coffee with a donut in Blender using the only Shader Editor nodes. The three-dimensionality of objects is achieved through the use of vector displacement.
Author: Erindale Woodford
Erindale Woodford, the creator of very complex and advanced shaders, has released all of his shaders from the Nodevember 2020 event.
A pack of 30 shaders can be downloaded from Gumroad.
All shaders are available for free for personal and commercial use.
Making a clock in Blender with nodes tutorial. The result is a procedural real-time clock shader.
Author Dr. Blender
A simple technique for creating beautifully animated shaders by combining noise textures:
Video by Sam Debenham
A technique for combining noise to create a beautiful animated shaderRead More »
“Nodevember 2020” – the next challenge is coming from November 1 to 30 for amateurs and fans of procedural (node-) modeling and creation. The rules of the challenge are very simple – each participant creates one procedural material/object on a given topic each day with Blender exclusively using nodes. You can create whatever you want – models, meshes, materials, shaders, and even music, as long as they are procedural. Next, publish your created object on social networks with the #nodevember hashtag.
Webpage: nodevember.io
When fine-tuning the finished render in “Compositing”, sometimes it is necessary to refer to the pixels coordinates of the processed image, for example, to apply effects distributed over the entire width or height of the image.
We can get the distribution factor of coordinates along with the height or width of the rendered image using texture nodes.
How to get the render pixels coordinates in compositingRead More »
We can get a list of all available shader nodes by their type.
To start, add any object to the scene, for example, a cube, create material for it, and delete all nodes. Here, in this material, we will display all the shader nodes available in Blender.
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