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Photorealistic Materials and Textures in Blender Cycles

You're reading from Photorealistic Materials and Textures in Blender Cycles Create impressive production-ready projects using one of the most powerful rendering engines

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781805129639

Length 394 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Tools

Blender

Concepts

Game Design

Author (1):

Arijan Belec

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Materials in Cycles FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Creating Materials in Blender

3. Chapter 2: Introducing Material Nodes

4. Chapter 3: Mapping Images with Nodes

5. Part 2: Understanding Realistic Texturing

6. Chapter 4: Achieving Realism with Texture Maps

7. Chapter 5: Generating Texture Maps with Cycles

8. Chapter 6: Creating Bumpy Surfaces with Displacement Maps

9. Part 3: UV Mapping and Texture Painting

10. Chapter 7: UV-Unwrapping 3D Models for Texturing

11. Chapter 8: Baking Ambient Occlusion Maps

12. Chapter 9: Introducing Texture Painting

13. Chapter 10: Creating Photorealistic Textures on a 3D Model

14. Part 4: Lighting and Rendering

15. Chapter 11: Lighting a Scene in Cycles

16. Chapter 12: Creating Photorealistic Environments with HDRIs

17. Chapter 13: Preparing the Camera for Rendering

18. Chapter 14: Rendering with Cycles

19. Index

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20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Downloading HDRIs

We will now explore some online libraries for HDRI images. This will allow us to download HDRIs with a wide variety of environments.

The following platforms offer free HDRI images:

Figure 12.5 shows the HDRI section at polyhaven.com. Here, we can get a preview of the 2D image as well as a demonstration of how some common materials would look in these environments.

Figure 12.5 – HDRIs available on polyhaven.com

Figure 12.5 – HDRIs available on polyhaven.com

To download an HDRI from Poly Haven, simply click on an image, and then click on the Download button in the top-right corner.

Figure 12.6 – Downloading an HDRI

Figure 12.6 – Downloading an HDRI

The other HDRI libraries work the same, and images can be downloaded by simply clicking on them and using the download button.

We will now have the HDRI saved to our computer in either the .EXR or .hdr...

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Authors (1)

Arijan Belec

Arijan Belec

Arijan Belec is an experienced 3D Generalist, teacher, and educational content producer with a decade spent in Blender 3D. He is recognized for his highly technical teaching style focusing on providing a deep understanding of Blender's mechanics, coupled with a captivatingly simple and laid-back method of presentation. He began his career in 3D design at the age of 13, by specializing in hard-surface modeling before progressively expanding his online teaching topics to all areas of 3D art. Arijan is a Blender YouTuber, Author, Private Tutor, and founder of a public Blender Discord community dedicated to teaching, sharing works, exchanging tips, and inspiring growth and progress to and by its members.

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