Blender 2.6 Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook: Over 40 recipes to help you create stunning materials and textures using the Cycles rendering engine with Blender

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Credits......Page 4
About the Author......Page 5
About the Reviewers......Page 7
www.PacktPub.com......Page 8
Table of Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction......Page 18
Material nodes in Cycles......Page 20
Procedural textures in Cycles......Page 29
Setting the World material......Page 36
Creating a mesh-light material......Page 43
Using displacement (aka bump)......Page 53
Introduction......Page 60
Preparing an ideal Cycles interface for material creation......Page 61
Naming materials and textures......Page 68
Creating node groups......Page 72
Linking materials......Page 80
Introduction......Page 84
Creating a rock material using image maps......Page 85
Creating a rock material using procedural textures......Page 93
Creating a sand material using procedural textures......Page 99
Creating a simple ground material using procedural textures......Page 110
Creating a snow material using procedural textures......Page 115
Creating an ice material using procedural textures......Page 118
Creating a clean running water material......Page 120
Introduction......Page 124
Creating a generic plastic material......Page 125
Creating a bakelite material......Page 127
Creating an expanded polystyrene material......Page 131
Creating a clear (glassy) polystyrene material......Page 133
Creating a rubber material......Page 135
Creating an antique bronze material \nwith procedurals......Page 137
Creating a multipurpose metal group node......Page 142
Creating a worn metal material with procedurals......Page 146
Creating a rusty metal material with procedurals......Page 152
Creating a wood material with procedurals......Page 158
Introduction......Page 162
Creating an ocean material using \nprocedural textures......Page 163
Creating underwater environment materials......Page 175
Creating a snowy mountain landscape \nwith procedurals......Page 183
Creating a realistic planet Earth as seen from space......Page 192
Introduction......Page 202
Creating cloth materials with procedurals......Page 203
Creating a leather material with procedurals......Page 208
Creating a synthetic sponge material with procedurals......Page 213
Creating a brick wall material with procedurals......Page 219
Creating a spaceship hull......Page 228
Introduction......Page 240
Creating a snake-like scaly material with image maps and procedurals......Page 241
Creating a wasp-like chitin material with procedural textures......Page 246
Creating a beetle-like chitin material with procedural textures......Page 249
Creating a grass shader......Page 252
Creating tree shaders – the bark......Page 255
Creating tree shaders – the leaves......Page 263
Creating a Gray Alien skin material with procedurals......Page 266
Index......Page 274