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Blender 3D By Example.

You're reading from   Blender 3D By Example. A project-based guide to learning the latest Blender 3D, EEVEE rendering engine, and Grease Pencil

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789612561
Length 658 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Oscar Baechler Oscar Baechler
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Xury Greer Xury Greer
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to 3D and the Blender User Interface 2. Editing a Viking Scene with a Basic 3D Workflow FREE CHAPTER 3. Modeling a Time Machine - Part 1 4. Modeling a Time Machine - Part 2 5. Modern Kitchen - Part 1: Kitbashing 6. Modern Kitchen - Part 2: Materials and Textures 7. Modern Kitchen - Part 3: Lighting and Rendering 8. Illustrating an Alien Hero with Grease Pencil 9. Animating an Exquisite Corpse in Grease Pencil 10. Animating a Stylish Short with Grease Pencil 11. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 1: Sculpting 12. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 2: Retopology 13. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 3: UV Unwrapping 14. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 4: Baking and Painting Textures 15. Creating a Baby Dragon - Part 5: Rigging and Animation 16. The Wide World of Blender 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Simple materials and the nodal workflow

The kitchen has several objects whose materials are simple to set up and will serve as a good introduction to the basics of PBR. Eevee's real-time rendering is based around controlling a limited set of variables that have the potential to replicate all of the physically possible materials in the entire world. Take any dirt, meteor, banana, or liquid in the universe, and you can map its properties from a value of 0 (0%) to a value of 1 (100%):

  • Black to white colors (distributed over Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) pixels)
  • Transparent to opaque
  • Rough to smooth
  • Dielectric to metallic

Nodes are a way to map those values. A value of 0 Roughness means not rough at all. A value of 1 Roughness means very rough. A value of 0 Transparency is completely opaque. A value of 1 Transparency is completely transparent. If you took a photograph, it has...

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