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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Getting to know Blender’s camera

The camera is an object in Blender that allows us to turn a 3D scene into a rendered image. It can be moved and placed like a regular 3D object, but it has many more properties that can be controlled to achieve different results. Figure 13.1 shows the camera in a default Blender scene.

Figure 13.1 – Camera in a default Blender scene

At the back of the camera, there is a point that represents the observer location. This is where the image is viewed from when we render an image. In Figure 13.2, we can also see the frame of the camera, which defines the borders of the image.

Figure 13.2 – Parts of a camera

In a default scene, we can render an image by pressing F12, or by clicking the Render Image button in the Render menu in the top pane of the screen, as shown in Figure 13.3.