Photorealistic Materials and Textures in Blender Cycles: Create impressive production-ready projects using one of the most powerful rendering engines

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Materials in Cycles
Chapter 1: Creating Materials in Blender
	Technical requirements
	Preparing the Shading workspace
	Creating materials
	Adding multiple materials to an object
	Tweaking material properties
		Specular
		Roughness
		Metallic
		Clearcoat
		Emission
	Summary
Chapter 2: Introducing Material Nodes
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the default nodes
	Creating textures with the Image Texture node
		Loading images into materials
		Generating images with nodes
	Exploring powerful nodes
		Color control nodes
		The Mix node
		The Noise Texture node
		The Voronoi Texture node
		The ColorRamp node
	Generating a camouflage texture
	Summary
Chapter 3: Mapping Images with Nodes
	Technical requirements
	Understanding image mapping
	Using the Node Wrangler add-on
		Texture Coordinate node
	Mapping textures to 3D models
	Summary
Part 2: Understanding Realistic Texturing
Chapter 4: Achieving Realism with Texture Maps
	Technical requirements
	Using Albedo maps to create a base texture
	Introducing Roughness maps
	Using Normal maps to detail surfaces
	Creating transparency
		Understanding Alpha maps
		Creating realistic glass in Cycles
	Summary
Chapter 5: Generating Texture Maps with Cycles
	Technical requirements
	Using texture libraries
	Applying texture maps in Blender
	Creating Roughness maps in Blender
	Baking Normal maps in Blender
	Generating Roughness maps in GIMP
	Generating Normal maps in GIMP
	Summary
Chapter 6: Creating Bumpy Surfaces with Displacement Maps
	Understanding displacement maps
	Generating a Displacement map in GIMP
	Applying Displacement maps in Blender
	Generating Displacement maps in Blender
	Summary
Part 3: UV Mapping and Texture Painting
Chapter 7: UV-Unwrapping 3D Models for Texturing
	Technical requirements
	Understanding UV mapping
	Unwrapping basic shapes
	Unwrapping a cylinder
	Unwrapping complex shapes
	Summary
Chapter 8: Baking Ambient Occlusion Maps
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Ambient Occlusion maps
	Baking an Ambient Occlusion map
	Applying the Ambient Occlusion map with nodes
	Mixing Diffuse and Ambient Occlusion maps in GIMP
Chapter 9: Introducing Texture Painting
	Understanding the basics of texture painting
	Improving edges with texture painting
	Creating custom brushes in GIMP
	Creating a bullet hole decal
	Using stencils in Blender
	Summary
Chapter 10: Creating Photorealistic Textures on a 3D Model
	Technical requirements
	Adding basic materials to the steering wheel
		Adding texture to handles
		Adding texture to the center pad
		Adding carbon fiber to the steering wheel
	Baking a custom Normal map
	Applying a logo to the steering wheel
	Painting buttons with stencils
	Summary
Part 4: Lighting and Rendering
Chapter 11: Lighting a Scene in Cycles
	Technical requirements
	Generating light in Blender
		Using light objects
		Emission lighting
		Environmental lighting
	Simulating realistic lighting
	Generating studio lighting
	Summary
Chapter 12: Creating Photorealistic Environments with HDRIs
	What are HDRIs?
	Downloading HDRIs
	Applying HDRIs in Blender
	Summary
Chapter 13: Preparing the Camera for Rendering
	Getting to know Blender’s camera
	Snapping and moving the camera
		Snapping the camera
		Moving the camera
	Controlling camera settings and parameters
	Animating the camera with keyframes
		Animating the camera
		Animating the focus distance
	Summary
Chapter 14: Rendering with Cycles
	How does rendering work in Blender?
	Configuring render properties
		Eevee versus Cycles
		Sampling
		Adding background transparency
	Exporting images and videos
	Summary
Index
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