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Why does my volumetric atmosphere not have an orange sunset region?
So this is the effect I'm looking for:
This orange glow in an atmosphere, right where the shadowy and the light side meet. However, my material (which should be pretty physically accurate as far as I ...
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Why is my distorted noise texture not giving me it's correct bump normal information?
below I added an image of what I mean.
My noise texture gets distorted, but for some reason when plugging in the Fac or Color output into another bump node, The distortion is gone..
I'd love to know ...
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How can I render this procedural material and mesh at the same time into a single image?
I am just trying to find out how I would go about rendering this mesh with the procedurally generated material on it into a .PNG with an alpha channel to use for some artwork.
Mesh With Material On It
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How can I create a procedural cast iron shader similar to these photos?
I want to recreate the cast iron material you can see in the reference images. I'm especially interested in the structure and reflectance properties. The first two images were taken up close and the ...
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Mixing materials using color ramps (and distributing with a random seed)
I'm creating some procedural abstract art in Blender. My goal is to create a material that mixes multiple shaders, with a seed driving the distribution of the mixed shaders across my geometry.
Right ...
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How can I create a wire-wove grid material in cycles?
I'm trying to create a procedural cycles material which looks like a speaker of a mobile phone.
My attempt is by mixing two Wave Textures and rotating them by 45°. Any hints on how I can make it look ...
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Procedural brush stroke texture
How do I create a procedural brush stroke texture in cycles such that:
(A) There is a distinct and noticeable shift in the saturation and value of the color(s) as shown in :
(B) Each "stroke&...
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Custom blurred pointiness node using normal input
I need to create blurred curvature map, I'm currently using Pointiness input along with ColorRamp node but because the Pointiness node doesn't depend on coordinates input I'm unable to blur the result ...
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How to create a detailed moon surface texture for close up shots?
I started working on my dream animation featuring the moon. So now I wanted to take a close up shot of the moon's surface but the problem is that the textures in the NASA website aren"t that ...
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Is it possible to create a Voronoi RadialLine?
I could make something similar to Swirl, but I want to make a line towards the center of each Voronoi!
Would it be possible for me to make it?
Current node configuration
I want the texture to look ...
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Is there something like a stretch or deformation Map?
Working on some procedural materials and wondering if there's some way to get a sense of how much an area has been compressed or stretched from some resting position. Ideally this would be a vector ...
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How to properly set up this PBR texture
I'm working with this PBR metal texture. I have the images plugged into the proper slots, and everything seems fine except for the normal map.
If you look at the bottom of the image, when I connect ...
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How can I make a paint-covered material in Blender?
So I'm struggling with the wheel rim's surface material and this is what I've done:
The nodes:
(PBR material from Remington Graphics)
The real stuff:
(For more references check this out)
So I'd ...
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how can I create a procedural circuit board texture
Im curious If it's possible to create a fully procedural texture similar to this reference image using only material nodes
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How to make a procedural planet material with varied roughness of land and water in Cycles with Blender 2.8?
I am trying to make a Earth-like planet in Blender 2.8.
I will try to explain my question with details if possible.
Here is the shader I am using in text form:
[Noise Texture]|Fac|>|Fac|[Color Ramp]>|...
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How would I procedurally texture a marble tile floor without the texture spreading across every tile?
Basically I have a tile which I duplicated using an array modifier to make the floor:
Then in the node editor I created a procedural marble texture using nodes and got this:
The problem with this ...
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Why could a material look different in rendered result and in viewport Rendered shading mode?
This is my first node group and I can't figure out why the material showing up in the viewport looks different than what is rendering. Please, can someone help?
Rendered material:
Viewport material:
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How can I create an irregular, marble-tiles surface?
I'm trying to create a marble-tiles procedural texture for a bathroom's pavement like this:
What I already did was creating the surface for the single tiles, but I can't get to do two things:
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How do I thicken my procedural dot texture?
I have this procedural noisy dots texture and I would like to thicken the dots outward.
I am looking to create an effect where the dots would expand similar to how you can grow a selection in GIMP or ...
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How to make my scratches have a metallic look
I've watched a lot of tutorials to make my scratches metallic and glossy, but my scratches only have a white color and are not reflecting anything.
My last try with that
I want to have something near ...
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help with procedural wispy / pulled apart cotton-like material
I'm having a little trouble creating a material similar to the fabric part in the following pictures:
This is what my node tree is currently looking like:
Here's what my rendering is currently ...
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Convert Object texture coords to Polar
I am building a procedural eye texture setup based around Object coordinates. As part of the project, I am trying to re-create a setup that is normally used for UV textures.
This tutorial shows how ...
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How to make a procedural white birch bark material in cycles?
How can I proceduraly create the dark lines as seen in white birch (paper birch) bark?
This is the exact type of effect I'm trying to replicate. Random sized "lines" in the bark, yet they all run the ...
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Animated procedural stylized water ripple in Cycles material
I'm trying to find out how to create a procedural material that creates an animated diffuse ripple around any intersection or 'edge'.
e.g. cube lands on water surface, edge of water touching the side ...
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Light emitted through a translucent plastic material [duplicate]
I often see hallway lights or street signs made from translucent plastic shapes inside of which is a light. The light doesn't spread through the thicker parts of the plastic, and some angles are ...
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How to procedurally add a precious metal vein to rock
First of all, here is an example picture of how the effect looks (source: http://marksteinmetz.photoshelter.com/image/I0000OqcTcB07acQ):
This is different from the usual rust texture in that the gold ...
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How to rotate a procedural material
I am faking sci-fi towers with windows on each floor by using a procedural texture, but I can't get it to be horizontal instead of vertical.
This is the node setup right now:
This question seems to ...
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Texture Changes When Object Position Changes
I'm working on a procedural wood texture, and it's become clear that I don't understand cycles vectors at all :( I'm hoping someone will see an obvious problem or at least point me to a good resource ...
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Suspended particles inside a material (procedural)
Inspired by reading this very intense thread about procedural materials, I decided to try and build upon saunam's material of "suspended particles in a recipient" to create a material for a watermelon ...
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How can I make a procedural polished granite material?
I have made a polished granite material with a node setup. Using this photograph as reference, how can I improve this further?
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