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How to Bend Object Coordinate Procedurally?

I'm trying to create a mapping that curves the line to keep it the same width. But I couldn't find anything on the entire internet. I would like to understand what approach and how to do it. ...
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Procedural rounded corners in the Shader Editor

I basically want to procedurally create this in my material, where I can control the border thickness and corner radius. That's it. Thanks in advance.
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How can I get variation in a carpet texture

I'm using this image as reference for what I want my carpet to look like: The carpet has a lot of variation as most carpet does especially in the bottom left corner. I want to know how to turn a ...
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How can I create a procedurally stained wall material?

For the material, I would like to create the concrete material and the stains that seem to be caused by water leaks. Particularly, I'd like to know how to create the stain patches for the material.
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Procedural texture is much lighter when baked

I was following a procedural texture tutorial to make a texture for an object, but the bake is coming out a lighter color (I'm baking it to export it to a game engine). I've included the tutorials I ...
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Creating a procedural field-line pattern with material nodes

I'm working on a procedural texture that generates a field-line pattern like you might see in diagrams like this: Requirements The arrow heads aren't important from that diagram. I'd like to have ...
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Procedural gradient creates banding... Why?

This is beyond frustrating. I'm using a simple linear gradient on a cube (black to transparent), and I get this awful banding. How can I get rid of it?
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Is it possible to create an Eevee material that changes its color depending on if a specific object is behind it?

I want to make an outline that is made with a solidify modifier with inverted normals with backface-culling, where the color of the outline is controlled with a texture. There are however scenarios ...
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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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Rock PBR Texture Creation within Blender (Procedural) for export in game engines

I've seen in Blender Docs that there are some of the procedural textures in Blender like Voronoi/Clouds/Noise etc. I've seen Substance Designer which is a good alternative to create textures for game ...
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Creating a short fur material in Blender

In the Blue Sky Studios movie Ferdinand, I learned that the body fur on the bull characters was created using a material that emulates very short fur. How can I create a material like that in Blender?
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Procedural materials that rotate with instances

I need to add realistic materials to CAD-based models with unfriendly geometry. There are thousands of models, so re-meshing and UV-unwrapping is not an option. I've gotten decent results with ...
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How to make material static?

I have this material applied to a human figure. I want to see what it would be like if the colors were not bouncing around different faces. Does anyone know how to achieve that? Blend file:
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Procedural Texture Repetition boundaries Problem

I'm trying to build a texture mapping that can do the following things: Adjust number of repetitions, Right, Left Top and Bottom Space the tiles apart from each other Scale Rotate Translate Entire ...
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Geometry Nodes messes up Vector Displacement

Please help me check out the Maths of these nodes. I’m combining the Shader Nodes and Geometry Nodes to create something. This “Multiple Balls” object is using Geometry Nodes to assign “Individual ...
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How to translate plane coordinates x,y to equirectangular?

I have a procedural texture with a circle made by formula $x^2 + y^2 \lt r^2$. It looks like a circle on a plane. But if I try to use this formula in the World environment - the circle is distorted. ...
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Procedural material for corrosion

I am modeling some small stainless steel parts that have pitting corrosion on the surface. The pits look like small needle pokes randomly positioned on the surface. I have tried using the Noise ...
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Seamless overlapping in procedural material

I'm currently developing a procedural art material. A combination of slate and gold. So far the design is good, but what I can't do is to bring the three different gold materials together, - ...
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Procedural Space Texture has Unwanted Red Streak when Viewing from Head-On Angles

So I built this material all-by-myself with information learned in a few other procedural texture material tutorials. It's meant to be a stylized space texture, with moving purple and red space clouds....
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3D procedural material workflow

I’m a product designer getting into blender to do product renders and animations and being having issues with procedural materials workflow. I recently bought Lance Phans’s wood shader and have been ...
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How to bake multiple instances with randomized emission/material?

I am trying to bake instances into one UV map/texture for exporting to other software. They all have the same material, which gives them different emission color based on their object data. Node setup:...
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Creating (procedural) bubble glass material similar to 'pulegoso' glass blowing technique

I would like to recreate the 'pulegoso' sculptural glass effect as a material, where the glass encases small air bubbles - see images. Ideally it would be procedural, so I can edit bubble size / ...
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Make transparent this black procedural emission using Combine XYZ and Value nodes?

I'm trying to use these CombineXYZ and Value nodes for transparency and emission. Edit: I'm trying to make the "Sphere" emission transparent, especially the black part.
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Procedural material orientation

I'm new here on Blender, so I create my procedural wood material and I applied it on four separate objects. I'm wondering if there's a way do give a different orientation on each object for the same ...
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What's the point of ArcTan2?

please help me understand: What’s the point of ArcTan2? In what situation would a person prefer using it over ArcTan1? What is its Mathematical function? My thoughts: The function of ArcTan1 is ...
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Can't figure out how this LED display was animated

I'm trying to figure out how this was done, specifically the animation for the LED screen. The loading bar, the random scrolling numbers (on right), the text that pops up on the bottom left. What's ...
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How to keep the procedural texture unchanged in the pose mode?

This question is related to the previous question. The shader material is setup based on the dot product between the surface normal and a vector <1,1,1> as the following screenshot shows: In ...
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Texture bake procedural material fire not working?

I want to texture bake my fire, using this texture bake procedural material, but ended up with a black texture instead. How do I texture bake my fire like in this tutorial? My Blender fire file
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Is there a way to improve performance of procedural materials in the viewport without affecting render quality?

Most of my materials are procedural, but they are taxing my viewport performance? Is there a way to limit their effect in the view port when using viewport shading, like you can limit the texture ...
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Perfecting Procedural Texture for Long Vertical Cracks on Concrete Surface

I hope you’re all doing well. I’ve been working on a project where I’m trying to create a procedural texture to depict long vertical cracks in a concrete surface, specifically, I am aiming for the ...
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How to create L shaped brick pattern with shader nodes?

how can I create this L shaped pattern?
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What's the math behind Noise Texture Node?

Could you please explain or share sites which explain the intuition of Noise Texture Node? The only helpful source that I can find at the moment is this video. I don't know how to read codes so ...
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How does Smooth F1 Voronoi work mathematically?

I’m told that Smooth F1 Voronoi uses Smooth Minimum to visually smooth out the Voronoi Edges. But how does it do that? I know the math behind Smooth Minimum and F1 Worley Noise, but how does Smooth ...
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How to create a mesh fabric with ability to change color in color ramp procedurally?

I am trying to create this mesh shoe fabric material in Blender procedurally and failing. After a 2hr attempt, the closest result I got is attached below. however, I want to achieve result like the ...
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How would you make a procedural displacement texture resulting in random planar faces?

Is it possible to make a displacement texture where each cell of a voronoi texture results in a 100% flat planar surface? The picture below is similar to the effect I'm looking for, however, in this ...
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Correct Face Attributes not working

I'm trying to create a mesh with a procedural checkerboard shader, but when I scale the mesh, the material scales as well, even when I have Correct Face Attributes applied. Oddly, it seems to work ...
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Geometry nodes : Is there a way to assign a material to a specific instance?

Currently building a geometry nodes setup that create a web of sphere distributed along the point of a curve as follows: I would like to have the spheres with more than 1 connection to be green and ...
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Shaders: How do I make a musgrave pattern tri-planar?

I'm working on this procedural wood texture (I'm going for a stylized look) using a musgrave texture as a base. As pictured below, this works well with vertical surfaces, but when viewed from the top ...
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how do I create glass material and lens material similar to the glass camera panel in image?

Hi, I am trying to create a glass material that is similar to the one I posted below... How do I achieve a similar effect, in eevee?
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How to map the Gradient Texture based on the loose parts of a single object?

Is it possible to map the Gradient Texture in a way that no matter the position of the mesh on the space? So $0$ will always be at one end of the mesh and $1$ at ...
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How to rotate a procedural texture on a single object?

When several objects share the same procedural material, how do you place it on an individual object the way you want to? For example, how do you rotate the texture on one object, but not on other ...
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How can I rotate vectors to align with a sphere surface?

TLDR: How can I align voronoi scattered textures to the surface of a sphere without using UVs? I am trying to scatter textures on the surface of a sphere using a voronoi texture, and I can't use UV ...
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How do I add a texture for procedural materials as seen in this video?

So I am watching a procedural material tutorial video on Youtube. In the beginning, the creator has a tile-like texture in the background of his object, which is the plane. When he adds the Magic ...
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Creating Custom Texture

Need some help with a custom texture that I want to create. Reference texture (want to achieve something like this) I found on the web: I tried to create something similar with the following node set ...
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How can I recreate this polka dot multi color material procedurally

How can I go about recreating this with procedural material? Node setup would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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Geometry Nodes - How to maintain individual instance index after Mesh Boolean operation?

I am instancing shapes on the points of a mesh, assigning each instance an index, which I then put into the group output to be used in the shader to make each instance a different colour. I am doing ...
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How to create an accurate procedural spin gradient?

I created this texture in Photoshop. It's 4096x4096 pixels, Grayscale, 16-bit, PNG. At 1.8MB the file size is reasonable, but I feel like if I could create this procedurally with nodes it would be ...
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Procedural texture does not work

I am using blender and rhino. but today i realize that my obj date from rhino can not be rendered in blender with Procedural material. does someone know the reason? thanks! left is the cube from ...
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How can I remove seams over procedural texture

I've created this character and want to create snake scale texture over body using this tutorial ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJVuodaPHTQ I want to remove seams where joints are present in UV ...
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How to prevent textures from stretching?

I am trying to create a cartoon realistic pizza. However though, when trying to add materials, some of the smaller dimensioned faces seems to stretch it out. Here is an example of the Pepperoni, and ...

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