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How to create black cold lava rock material?

I need to create this lava rock material with small cavities, but I can't find any similar texture. I tried adding some Voronoi textures mixed with Color Ramps to create the normal/displacement map ...
Jose Marquez's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
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How to create a shader for mayonnaise?

I'm a beginner in blender and am creating a 3d burger. I do not know how to create the shader for the mayonnaise. I don't know much about materials, so I thought of taking advice here. I tried playing ...
Yousuf Chaudhry's user avatar
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2 answers
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How to make a “reflective tape” material in cycles? Nodes Question [duplicate]

Question to original link: How to make a "reflective tape" material in cycles? I'm using Blender 2.78c, any ideas on making too. Nodes look different. I am trying make my signs ...
Nathaniel Long's user avatar
7 votes
2 answers
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Dilate/expand vertex color mask?

I'd like to use vertex colors in order to apply different shaders on a single object, instead of going through the whole process and drawing a 'black and white' texture (for 1000+ objects). ...
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35 votes
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How to make a "reflective tape" material in cycles?

How can I make a cycles material that gets very bright when a light is shown on it, yet still has normal colors? I'm talking about the "Retroreflective sheeting" that can be seen on road signs, the ...
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5 votes
1 answer
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Graph bar with elevation/height values

How can I get a graph legend that automatically gets my maximum and minimum elevation from an object? Basically, I have an object that dinamically paints other with waves. I have a node setup that ...
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10 votes
2 answers
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Guillaume Kurkdjian Water Material

Guillaume Kurkdjian has this really cool water: How can I achieve this water in blender cycles? (material and modeling of the water) The closest I've gotten is this: This is the material settings ...
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11 votes
3 answers
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How can I give an array of objects a variety of colors?

I would like to give the objects in an array (using array modifier) different colors. Right now the array of objects is just one color, and i would like to give each member of the array a different ...
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2 votes
1 answer
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How to make glowing particles, with a solid glowing center

How can I create a material that looks like this? Thanks!
WishyQ's user avatar
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3 votes
2 answers
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Emissions material that is glittery?

Is it possible to create a glittery material that is emissions-only, that has "shadowy" areas and depth? Thank you! Edit: Here are some images: The material might be a mix of these, or just one of ...
WishyQ's user avatar
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4 votes
1 answer
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How to make semi-glossy emissions material?

How can i make a material that looks semi-glossy, but the "glossy" accents are being generated from emissions, rather than being generated by reflections from light sources outside the object? ...
WishyQ's user avatar
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3 votes
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How to perform basic tasks in Cycles vs. Blender Internal?

In Blender Render let's say I want to texture a box. This would be my process: Model than UV UNWrap Bake AO to a image set blend mode to multiply Add diffuse texture with appropriate blend mode on a ...
David Prentice's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
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How can I combine two materials in Cycles?

I was wondering if it is possible, using Cycles, to combine two materials. For example, I have wood cubes which have a procedural wood material from Blendswap, but each of them needs a texture on it (...
gordie's user avatar
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