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

2. Chapter 1: Creating Materials in Blender FREE CHAPTER

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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Technical requirements

In this book, we will be using Blender 3.4.1. However, the same principles and methods will most likely be applicable in earlier versions of Blender.

The latest version of Blender can be downloaded at the following link:

https://www.blender.org/download/

Blender’s official website states the following minimum hardware requirements:

64-bit quadcore CPU with SSE2 support
8 GB RAM
Full HD display
Mouse, trackpad, or pen and tablet
Graphics card with 4 GB RAM and OpenGL 4.3 support
Less than 10-year-old system and OS

These specifications are defined by the official Blender website as the minimal requirements, but higher specifications will obviously lead to better performance.

The prepared resources can be found in the Chapter01 folder within the book’s downloadable resources folder, available here: https://packt.link/mA1OU.

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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