Nodes - A Blender Material Study
The Blender Cycles Renderer has an extremely powerful and intricate material system known abroad as "Nodes". Nodes have limitless possibilities, but can become very complex, complicated and convoluted very easily and are hard to keep up with, but the outcome can be tremendous! Here I will log my journey as I try to come up with my own custom materials.
The Testing Room
The Blender file used to display the Material Nodes will be the same in every circumstance. I started with a simple sphere with a reflective plane and some backdrop planes. I stepped it up by adding a World map and color to the sphere to assist with reflective and refractive properties as well.
Hopefully this will transition nicely and will highlight the material in a way that makes sense. |
A Wintery Mix
I thought it only appropriate to begin my material study with a bundle of "wintery" elements. After all, we're expecting around thirty inches of snow this weekend!