Blender 2.6 Cycles: Materials and Textures Cookbook

Key Features

• Create naturalistic materials and textures - such as rock, snow, and ice - using Cycles
• Learn Cycle's node-based material system
• Get to grips with the powerful Cycles rendering engine

Book Description

What you will learn

• Create a basic Cycles material mixing the closure components
• Connect nodes of different kinds to build more advanced materials
• Add node-based textures to the shaders
• Create simple and complex materials such as glass, stone, fire and ice
• Switch shader components without affecting a possibly complex network of links
• Parent and rename the nodes to better organize the ‚ÄúNode Editor‚Äù window
• Build material interfaces for general use in complex materials by grouping the shaders inside groups
• Set-up light-sources and the ‚ÄúWorld‚Äù Global Illumination

Who this book is for

This book is perfect for you if you have used Blender before but are new to the impressive Cycles renderer. You should have some knowledge of the Blender interface, though this is not a strict requirement. If you want to create realistic, stunning materials and textures using Cycles, then this book is for you!