Creating a realistic mud material using procedural texturing in Blender

Let’s create the mud material using procedural texturing in Blender – but first, we need to understand the nature of mud. If we break down mud, we will find that it is a combination of soil, stones, loam, and other stuff, and everything is mixed with water, so these are the elements that we will be creating procedurally in Blender:

• Water puddles
• Soil
• Stones

To keep you motivated, this is the final result that you’ll be able to achieve by the end of this chapter:

Figure 8.1 – The final result of the mud material that you will achieve

You can skip this chapter and use the final result by downloading the Blender file that you will find at this GitHub link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/3D-Environment-Design-with-Blender/blob/c9a6c37ca19a618bec29ac0e0f9a39576c9883ad/chapter-8/Procedural%20Mud%20Material.zip.

Let’s get started...