Photorealistic Materials and Textures in Blender Cycles

Table of Contents

1. Creating Materials in Blender
2. Introducing Material Nodes
3. Mapping Images with Nodes
4. Achieving Realism with Texture Maps
5. Generating Texture Maps with Cycles
6. Creating Bumpy Surfaces with Displacement Maps
7. UV-Unwrapping 3D Models for Texturing
8. Baking Ambient Occlusion Maps
9. Introducing Texture Painting
10. Creating Photorealistic Textures on a 3D Model
11. Lighting a Scene in Cycles
12. Creating Photorealistic Environments with HDRIs
13. Preparing the Camera for Rendering
14. Rendering with Cycles