Blender Material Nodes Master: Create Procedural 3D Textures

Create your own customisable procedural materials & spectacular textures for any Blender project.

Created by: GameDev.tv Team
Learn to Make and Sell Games

Created by: Stephen Woods
3D Artist and Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• Create procedural shaders using the node editor.
• Use the Node Wrangler add-on to speed up your workflow.
• Learn the optimal way to frame, colour code and re-arrange your node trees for readability.
• Manipulate vectors, process values and colours, and generate complex procedural textures.
• Create custom utility nodes to speed up your workflow.
• Build a working knowledge of Blender’s complex node-based shading environment.
• Understand how vectors are used to place textures and values across an object.

Requirements

• This course is suitable for all levels of Blender users.
• You'll need a basic knowledge of the Blender UI and navigating menus and viewports (although no modelling is required).
• Basic math skills (adding, subtracting, multiplication and division).
• A basic understanding of lighting would also be helpful.

Target audience

• You want to create your own customisable procedural materials & textures for any Blender project
• You want to create realistic shaders without relying on images.
• You want to increase your knowledge of dozens of utility nodes for math, vector math, and colour & value manipulation.
• You want to take your procedural texturing skills to the next level!