Beginner Blender 4.0 Tutorial - Part 8: Rendering!

Let's color those sprinkles, and make this donut realistic 🍩 Part 9: • Beginner Blender 4.0 T...
In this video you'll learn about random color values, render engines and how to use your GPU in Cycles.
The plate you'll model as homework: www.poliigon.com/model/cerami...
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=== Chapter Marks ✂️===
0:00 Intro
1:21 Applying materials to multiple objects
2:33 Generating random values per materials
3:40 Converting values to colors
4:23 Constant interpolation
5:03 Appealing sprinkle colors
6:09 Making metallic sprinkles
9:03 Adjusting sprinkle roughness
10:30 Fly navigation
12:31 Understanding render engines
14:36 Cycles engine
16:17 GPU Rendering
17:54 AI Denoising
18:38 Computer too slow?
20:00 Choosing a GPU opendata.blender.org
20:48 Reseting the lamp location
22:07 Subsurface Scattering (SSS)
24:56 Adding SSS to sprinkles
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[@miscetc-tm2yt]

At approx. 13:30 ... If you're also wondering how to adjust the lamp setting, you have to make sure that Light is selected under Scene Collection at the top right of the screen. He had that selected already but didn't mention it.

[@chorbles]

life saver!

[@AM-hs4nk]

I just came here to look for this. Thank you!

[@tora1546]

life saver!

[@ruekurei88]

Thanks. Downloaded them so practice offline, but had to come back. Thank god for comment sections...sometimes, lol.

[@jonathantodor2698]

thanks a lot

[@galacticsugar8125]

if you go to the shading tab and dont see anything: A few replies have mentioned to first try pressing forward slash (/) Or Go to the tabs(layout, modeling, etc), click the +, then general, then shading For some reason that worked for me

[@FuryWho]

Thank you so much. I had the same exact problem

[@ang2162]

thank you!!! i was so confused

[@varunkashyap6571]

Thanks bro . Was confused at this for like hours

[@hollow_xiii]

Thank you so much!!! I was just stressing for like an hour, thinking of what step i couldve possibly missed.

[@royholt5562]

Thank you! I just saw two unglazed donuts for some reason.

[@subhopriyadutta9906]

I will be sticking to EEVEE for the time being. I turned on cycles and now my laptop's GTX 1050 is filing restraining order against me.

[@Riflyre]

Same

[@2222p]

Lmaooo same

[@xucc2469]

LMAO

[@Shadow-mi8qs]

Lol same, we even have the same card

[@unbroken8311]

Yeah me too, I think my whole PC died 3 times just by clicking the button.

[@avurado]

Bro decided to make us feel small with those 4 3090s 😂 great series man! Always something to learn

[@abiyyupanggalih854]

😂yeah

[@sfguzmani]

bruhhh

[@Karlush]

Mission accomplished.

[@dariousvex]

yeah and the Threadripper PRO 32cores LOL. It is nice system though.

[@pandadayi]

well, my 4070 ti is still fast enough for me. Don't need to be that fancy 🥲

[@luisvsafonso]

TIP/CORRECTION: at 11:00 the shortcut mentioned (Shift + ~) (might be different depending on keyboard region) actually activated what's called "walk" navigation, not "fly" navigation. If you use the menus to get to it, instead of the shortcut, you want to select "walk navigation" from the View->Navigation menu instead of "fly navigation". And you definitely want to use "walk" in this situation because "Fly" navigation is much harder to control and its not really meant to be used to position the camera for a still render but rather to make smooth camera movements for animation. Hope this helps and good job Blender Guru on the new donut tutorials.

[@gabriela8818]

thank you! i was really struggling with fly navigation

[@nlovesey]

thanks this helped alot!

[@yonathanavila7926]

thanks man!

[@wesselbaarda9719]

I was flying all over the place until I read this comment.

[@GivzzProductions]

thank you for this I was losing my mind over the damn fly navigation xD

[@maple3845]

24:00 FOR THOSE THAT CAN'T FIND THE "SCALE" SLIDER FOR SUBSURFACE SCATTERING: As of writing, it appears the "Weight" slider has been removed, and the "Scale" slider has been renamed to "Subsurface," just below the Base Color Tab.

[@3lawneh118]

thx

[@FirstNiwie]

Ty bro, I see this after 35min ( ‾ʖ̫‾)

[@FootySubject]

Short tip: If you scaled your donut to 0.12m or something not very different from this value and went to the shading tab, like in this video, and, you saw that you are really far from the objects. When you try to zoom in you see that you can't really because as you zoom further you see like the zooming capacity reaches a number close to zero and you can't zoom anymore. If you found yourself in this situation make sure to select all objects and click: Numpad -> . ; or a button that contains this keys -> ?/,. (all in shading tab) . Hope it helped and solved your issue!

[@Data5555]

dude. a hero :D

[@Showofto]

Thanks so much

[@markodabovic1130]

thank you

[@Jon1Jo]

The / Worked for me, thank you very much brother

[@SouLeft]

Thank you...

[@DangericeDreams]

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations! And your donut is looking great so far! You are *so* close to finishing. Once you make it through this video, you just need to add a few finishing touches, and you’ll be done!

[@paradox9551]

You're trying to be nice, which I appreciate, but it comes off as borderline patronising. We're all adults here.

[@DangericeDreams]

@@paradox9551 I know. I just recognize that a lot of people are going to be struggling through this tutorial, and a word of encouragement here and there makes a world of difference. I know that it’s something I wish I would have seen more of in the comments sections of previous iterations of this tutorial.

[@CatThwomper]

Can't wait. Never used blender before, and so going from "Huh, a funny looking circle" to "Man is my donut looking fiiiiiiiine" is pretty cool

[@skullcrasher1]

Thankyou so much, i have been trying real hard to learn game engines and game design, and blender has to be an everyday thing of my upcoming life, so i do really hope that i can at least be able to make acceptable objects after this tutorial

[@w-m780]

how did I make it till here last seris i just lefft at ep4

[@Gasparmike_]

Thank you for everything Andrew , discovered you 10 years ago and you’re still there for us .

[@dhirenchandusai8840]

Bro at 0:30 i tried changing color of my sprinkles individually, but I'm unable to do that. If i change for long sprinkle, its getting applied to medium and small also. how to assign colors individually?? Your reply would help

[@kurbis1624]

I had a similar problem. Maybe they are linked and not really duplicates. Make sure you are duplicating the sprinkles with shift + d (duplicate object). I duplicated with alt + d (duplicate linked) and that lead to my problem. Hope that helps@@dhirenchandusai8840 :)

[@roah_art]

@@dhirenchandusai8840 This is because four objects are set to the same material. In the video, he made new materials every time. (You can see the increase in the material number on the screen)

[@SeyaLaru]

02:30 If for some reasons some objects (icing, sprinkles, camera, ..) should disappear when you click on shading, do this: on the right, upper corner where all the objects are click on the checkboxes on each list to turn them off and then click them again to turn them on again. By doing that they should appear again. It happened to me, too. Idk why Blender does this.

[@PedroLWelter]

Saved me! thx man 🤘🤘🤘

[@russellmassey9553]

Hey you know how to fix this when I am going to shading it not showing user perspective it showing cruser which we use to movie things

[@enderul123]

Just to keep the chain going and to show some appreciation, thanks man!

[@MrVoidz-fc5hi]

Thank you !

[@khalidatour1995]

thanks you that really helped ❤

[@mnky91]

This is my 3rd doughnut I've done with you and I'm still getting benefit out of these courses. Thanks for being a cornerstone of this community and a great teacher!

[@user-dl6lt7zz7v]

2:28 If when you go to the 'shading' section and you want to get closer to the sprinkles, they do not come very close, click on the 'view' section while the sprinkle is selected and click on 'frame selected'.

[@secretsecret7475]

You are the best!

[@Vosgils]

Thank youu

[@user-dl6lt7zz7v]

@@Vosgils rica ederim

[@Emre-rf4uz]

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[@5thElement77]

I listened to you and messed up my entire view

[@mr_thingy]

This was my attempt at making a plate: 1: shift+a to add a circle 2: I then extruded the edge upwards a few times 3: I created a face in the bottom row 4: with g+s I moved rows away to form the rim of the plate 5: I added a subdivision modifier and applied it 6: I gave the plate a yellowish shein, made it a little bit metallic and removed the roughness The finished model looks like a ceramic plate.

[@RajOnACloud]

what do u mean by adding a face?

[@mr_thingy]

@@RajOnACloud when selecting verteces you can add together into a face with right click

[@tamheed2k3eshad]

Part 8 for 8 days in a row. This playlist helped me understand the basics of blender.

[@antnoknee]

here is how i made the plate (As a beginner who did not see part 9)that's at the end of the video , first i got a plane then subdivision surface(3 times) and apply. after, in edit mode, you click on one off the vertices on the outer ring of this disk with pressing alt then it should select a circle .Extrude with 'E' and 'Z' and pull it upwards finally press alt + S to make it less 90 degrees . Repeat this process and add a Solidify modifier to finish it off and you're done!

[@ritomdeb8080]

Damn that was easy.......thanks for sharing 😊 Btw my plate isn't a perfect circle like the one shown here....u can still see those 4 corners from the subdivision, but it gets the job done 👍

[@antnoknee]

@@ritomdeb8080 i recomend watching part nine then doing the plate because he did it better than me

[@TheArtofKAS]

THANK YOU.

[@TheMeldanor]

I love this tutorial so much. Andrew is entertaining and teaching at the same time. And you work on something good looking and pleasing. Thank you for your work and the effort to create this tutorials. Can't wait to see you in Blender 5.0?

[@Glitched_Starman]

This is my first time using Blender, thank you for making these! Got to about 17:31 without much issue and then my Intel i5 laptop (with mouse) had enough. I have a Intel iRIS Xe Graphics card so I'm happy I made it this far. Let's just hope I can get a new device within a year or two, or at the very least before 5.0 happens! I'll be back 👍

[@sidsays1340]

I have the same graphics card as you which setting did you choose for rendering, Cuda,OPTiX, HIP or oneAPI, currently I can not use my gpu for this and it is making my rendering pretty slow, would appreciate the help.

[@psychic_digit]

The amount of satisfaction that overcame me when I saw the beautiful rendered donuts that I made was immeasurable, thanks so much for the tutorials :) I’ll be finishing this one soon!

[@psychic_digit]

@@robbyz512 I started my first project a couple days ago, I’m not using a tutorial. I’m making an SNES cartridge, and I can promise you that I’ll be just as happy if not more when that’s complete. This tutorial helped me realize how fun blender can be, even when following a tutorial, that’s what I meant by this comment

[@user-js7ol7ft7q]

Thanks for these great tutorials! Very cool atmosphere, this is my first time making a donut, although I’ve seen tutorials on it before, when I started using Blender with 2.1. It's nice to see that you are here and still teaching and motivating people.

[@Jez2008UK]

Phew.... I've had my morning fix of learning Blender with Andrew :) 7am UK time :) What a wonderful series, I am enjoying learning Blender soooooooooo much, you're demystifying it for me :) Thank you!

[@alexandergraham2581]

Same! I get it!

[@kaito2128]

I love waking up in the morning, ,making coffee and following the new vid of the day.

[@Ed_259]

It's nice following this tutorial again after one year of Blender to see my progress. Great tutorials as ever!

[@LivadaNiki]

I started learning Blender last year by your previous donut tutorial. And I didn't even have a computer back then, only my laptop, that donut spin animation render took 2 days:) Now I have a PC specifically for 3D and I'm loving it.

[@gatoveioaindavoa4556]

Thank you Andrew for the great tutorials and generosity in spread your knowledge in 3D Art.

[@imaginaryking5276]

Guys if you have made it this far, congratulations! Rendering is always the amazing part but only if your computer is tough enough

[@SmallScreenCo]

Finished the 3.6 turotial 2 days ago. Thank you so much. Looking forward to doing this one when you finish : )

[@Juan-fw6iw]

Glad for your work on blender andrew, your knowledge have taken me far ❤

[@damjanmilenkovic5191]

The whole subsurface thing is revelation to me. Im learning so much, Andrew. Thank you

[@scottvogel8477]

Even though I am a few videos behind. I am excited that I get to mostly follow along with each video every day. Which is giving me a fun daily learning goal. I'm going to give the plate a go.

[@eolix_]

Thanks Andrew for these tutorials! I've been following you for over 10 years, I just wanted to see the new features on 4.x and why not see the donut tutorial again! Also, you pronounce nVidia funny 😅

[@BuLlsEyESsHoT]

Thank you so much for this series. I've been wanting to learn Blender for years now and it just never clicked. Until now that is! I already learnt so much, you are an awesome teacher.

[@pree3d]

thanks andrew!! Finished it and learnt a lot: Part-8 select a obj and create a new material, link materials includin the round sphere and: shift+select+shift select the obj with metrial+ctrl+L+link materials use objinfo node in shading to create random base color -got some random colors now, add color ramp and change it to any color *gradient and use cont to use multiple diff colors. [use rgb and constant] and multiple color sections. now to ctrl+shift+D to duplicate the ramp node and then connect it to metallic and also duplicate that and connec to roughness, adjust the parameters and done. moving on to rendering. numpad0 to enter the camera mode or click on the camera icon. to fix the camera view, click N, then select camera to view in View tab. In render select Cycles, and use GPU Compute, cycles gives accurate rendering, if gpu compute is greyed out, go to edit, pref, system then under cycled render Devices, choose Optix or cuda and then select your gpu for AMD select HIP, for mac oneAPI, then done now you can use GPU compute. change the light parameter to 20w in the data tab in the left settings dock, then press Alt+g and then drag the light to wherever it looks good. ChANGE subdivision surface parameters of donut and sprinkles material and then make it look soft anf real. Feeling Motivated!

[@breakupgoogle4584]

@8:38 That isn't a bug with the one pink sprinkle. It is the color ramps sharing the same decimal space. If you set the 'Pos' number on the color ramp to be one decimal value different it goes away. On the screen they are both at '0.700'. Try setting the black and white one to '0.701' and it goes away. Mine went away when I did that.

[@seppa1671]

I did it, and now one of the round sprinkles is purple! (EDIT: looks like you should change it by more than 0.001)

[@ulfrid]

I put in 0.750 and it worked. Thank U Soooo much!

[@Forbuilds]

been following this series for a while even though ive bern doing blender for years and i love it

[@sophiekohls5359]

took me a day to get to this part, i'm gonna take a break now and then probably try my hand at the plate tomorrow, great tutorial!

[@squishy312]

Dang! You have a baller system. I started out with a terrible HP laptop. It's true that you can learn on anything. I'm lucky to have a 5900X and a 4070 now. My last system was a 2700X and a 970. Before that was an old xeon, and the 970, and before that the laptop. You have truly have become an excellent teacher. Even someone like me, that's had about 11 years of experience in Blender learned some things. I'm still learning geometry nodes. They are awesome, but daunting, just like Blender was when I first started.

[@Derekku18]

If your computer is crashing, lower the render samples 'before' selecting the render mode. Instructions: While your viewport mode is still in the Solid Mode or Material Preview Mode (Not Rendered Preview) Change "EEVEE" to "Cycles" then: Sampling -> Viewport -> Max Samples 1 Sampling -> Viewport -> Denoise -> Check Sampling -> Render -> Max Samples 5 Sampling -> Render -> Denoise -> Check Then you can click Render Mode This stopped my pc from crashing and also allowed me to continue using "Cycles". You can increase the numbers a bit if your PC can handle it. Good Luck!

[@Bingbonged]

Hello Andrew and hello everyone! Just wanted to say thank you and that really appreciate the your teaching. This is my first time ever touching blender and though I don’t know all the terminologies it’s so fascinating :) Happy new year everyone:))

[@JapanesebyENa]

If the colors of the Long sprinkles are mixed and not clearly separated, it is highly likely that the "Pick Instance" option in the Instance on Points within the Geometry Nodes, which was explained around 14:46 in the previous Part 7 video, is not checked. So, that being said, I have included the point that I found confusing as a reference.

[@anastasiasvintozelska2767]

THANKS you save me!!

[@gel1769]

Thank you so much!!!

[@Somerandom1922]

This is awesome, I'm caught up, and will start on the homework (lol). But I've also gone and modelled a nice hammered copper mug with coffee in it for use in the final scene (it looks a smidge garbage, but I think that's related to the material I used for the coffee itself, I'll probably end up changing it).

[@piyushguptaji402]

i like the random color concept so much i linked the icing material and made the icing change colors on random like the sprinkles as well.

[@billal7185]

You can do the metallicity/roughness with one node by mapping the alpha value to the roughness of certain rendered colours. Like how you mapped the colour value (the B->W axis) to metallicity of certain rendered colours.

[@pirazel7858]

As far as I understand it, the R, G, B values in the subsurface sections are the penetration depth of the color channels. Long waves like Red go deep. Blue do not go deep at all. This is a universal concept and should apply to all objects in nature. That's why, best leave the numbers as they are

[@user-im3ve7sy6o]

Wow! This is my very first experience with 3D and now I have super appetising donuts! I am very excited about it! Thank you for lessons. Hope, I can be a good 3D artist in future ❤

[@NEERAJKUMAR-iy9kn]

YOU ARE REALLY A REAL BLENDER GURU.

[@SledgeFox]

Just want to say thank you again, I really enjoy your tutorials and I also want to recommend your Discord channel, friendly people answered my question there.

[@silentgoblin7722]

I got the 1 odd metallic sprinkle as well. I fixed it by adding .001 to the Pos value in the Color Ramp.

[@awilliams1701]

I did the donut tutorial back in 2017. I had an intel i7-2600 with a geforce 780. My first model after that was the enterprise refit. Not only was cycles super slow, but I rand out of CUDA memory and things like that. In 1080p the render took about an hour on the CPU (because of the CUDA issue). My current computer can do the same render in 4k for like 15 minutes. And if I flip to CUDA (geforce 3070) it takes bout 6 minutes. Granted that computer was 10 years old by the time I retired it.

[@faycelayech8701]

Thank you Andrew, for this Tutorial. 👍

[@eytienne2]

Great teacher (even giving homework) and for free! Thank you for your work!

Bro I wish I watched this sooner, I had in the preferences checked None as Cycles render engine. Before, even when I checked GPU as a cycles render device in a scene, it was slow and always using only CPU.... but now it runs so fast. Thank you!

[@badxstudio]

YESS!!! Blender Guru with another Bangerrr of a tutorial!

[@chrisbarnes3864]

Ive already had a few hickups that nearly gave me a panic attack while doing this course. When making a curved sprinkle, my sprinkle was warping instead of bending, had to use a different vid to fix it, then when i moved to the node tab, i could only see my donuts without icing or sprinkles, ended up being i had isolated the donuts. Im enjoying these as its fun to learn how to wrestle the program to do what you want.

[@kiveynen]

I think this is the first time that I feel bad for owning a 4080. Feels like it's rendering faster than the 4 3090's and I'm listening to the pep talk about "everyone starts on crappy pc". Love the series so far. The comments have been very helpful and I've been stuck only a few times and throwing away parts of the donut bc I did "SOMETHING" terribly wrong :D. Half way done - yay. The hardest part is gonna be remembering all of that and ACTUALLY understand, what the fuck I was doing at some steps. The mesh deformations are straight forward, but some of the node stuff didn't quite click yet. Thanks for your work, sensei ;D. This is the 3rd time I tried to pick up blender. The first time, that I'm actually doing it, it seems :)

[@demonking6356]

My gratitude to this man🔥🔥💕

[@AngusLindsay]

Great timing, I just finished the previous part!

[@culsud]

same

[@pandadayi]

The whole Series i thought i would crave for a donut. But all i needed was a Banana with those delicious SSS. You, Sir, are a hero. 🤩

[@wenFFBE8372]

Amazing tutorials, thank you 🙏🙏

[@tavomb]

the 4x 3090 flex tho

[@chill_boy1451]

Your talking style puts a smile in my face.

[@sprenzo9566]

I also too have the extra metallic sprinkle. I'm not sure why but I find it hilarious and I love it.

[@Narangarath]

It's possibly the most realistic part about this entire donut operation, there is ALWAYS one sprinkle in the bunch that clearly went on a solo adventure away from it's buddies. Usually you're lucky if it's even the right shape, never mind color. 😂

[@Geeuu]

You are an amazing teacher.

[@AitCollini]

Yay! One more part is done!

[@koroxo4935]

bro you are the best, i just love you

[@danielkuehnle4436]

Dude, you're just awesome!

[@Vanalleswa]

4x 3090.. wow. thanks again andrew! Had a lot of fun to follow this (again) :)

[@abiyyupanggalih854]

Yep

[@tomahawkstudios1431]

Thanks for that, it's awesome.

[@rue5291]

im so glad i didn't give up. thanks a lot

[@lineetta]

On a 2018 macbook air & those donuts pixelated so hard when I switched to Cycles that it looked like I was blurring out something obscene 😅 It got better though! Looking wayyyy cooler than I would have guessed at the start!

[@NahrAlma]

Geometry Nodes are so fun. My sprinkles were a bit long and clipping into each other too much. No problem just change the scale for the Y axis. Now they are nice and chonky 😄

[@Alex_192.]

For making the metallic sprinkles, you can set the alpha of the colour ramp to 1 or 0 to change the metallic and roughness value. This would probably fix the issue with the purple shiny sprinkle.

[@DariaSMoen]

i did it! tooks me 2 days to do it really good, but for sure its a good start :)

[@simonyoung6815]

You are BOUND for heaven, sir!

[@theterminado8638]

I gave up making my doughnut here because it’s kinda repetitive but I’m gonna just watch for information about the mechanics! I’m gonna make a 3D animation from a book I made. Thank you for the tutorials!

[@bkobinger]

Important TIP: Before changing renderer type from EVEE to CYCLES, PLEASE do you a favor and SAVE THE PROJECT. When i was changing the renderer type, my Blender just crashed and i lost like 3 hours of working.

[@Ishowblender]

Same thing I had to do the sprinkles again!

[@arny_-_]

I tried to do the blender 3.0 version of this tutorial but i got stuck and gave up. Now I just get an inspiration to try blender again and I see that there is now blender 4.0 and blender Guru has a new video. I have already gotten way further than before and am really excited to make my first 3d project.

[@blackhoundrise8431]

Sensei got serious machine! RTX 3090 and AMD thread ripper. awesome gear. when i started learning Blender, i had an amd 8120e processor and RX480 gpu. it was slow yes, but never crashed on me. as a side note, the animator and film director Makoto Shinkai made his first anime series on a Mac that had 64mb ram. this year i intend to complete Blender 4.0 but also learn grow from this. the problem i had was not the gear. it was attitude.

[@UnknownIdk-xm5xu]

For lighting u could add the area light instead It is so much easier Thank you Blender Gru uv'e helped so much in this torturial and I have learnt sooo much

[@puneetshakya3001]

When I started learning blender I too started with the donut series but gave up that time in the mid way. In last few months I learned and worked a lot in blender and now this series feels so good and fun to watch how quickly you can learn blender This is just amazing ❤. Thank you Andrew ❤.

[@prajwalkharel9754]

okay cha ta, soltee

[@Tosin226]

So far, so good!

[@alangabriel5361]

Your tutorial is the best one I've ever seen,teching us most of the pratical functions of blender in a smart way

[@amolang2006]

11:08 For some reason, that's Walk Navigation on my Blender. Fly Navigation has no resistance in movement so it literally flies away whichever the direction I move to by pressing WSAD keys.

[@RedXon4]

I remember watching your other donuts tutorials and seeing your titan rtx. It took you like 5s to render the donut, while it took me more than 5mins in evee. That discouraged me from doing 3d. I promised to my self that one day I will have setup that has similar render times. Few years later I have radeon 7800xt and I want to learn blender again. So I'm watching this series and thinking to myself: finally i will have pc that has similar performance to yours. No youre now rocking 4 rtx 3090. Anyway love your content.

[@nrdkraft]

The way I like to explain rendering to those unfamiliar is it’s like a photograph developing (works for people close to or over thirty but for younger people you might have to tell them it’s that old technique that cameras used to take photos😆)

[@shrimusical5899]

Thanks once again , i made it till here! wohoo

[@zypzex7042]

damn, that subsurface settings really do the trick :D

[@thewaxlab]

Huge fan of the materials system in Blender. As a former Maya/Arnold user, Cycles has been on par with Arnold render in terms of product shots and interior lighting. Haven’t done much with simulations in Blender, but I’m sure Cycles is capable.

[@KunPiyanush]

Whole new world awaits ! Let's Goooo

[@DevilbyMoonlight]

Very true you can render on slow hardware with the trade off for time.... dont laugh lol, I remember rendering a a single frame from a scene in Turbo Silver overnight using an Amiga 500 back in the early 90's and the render crashed just past the half way mark, so I rotated the camera upside down and set it to render again, once it rendered past the half way mark I stitched the both files together with 'Art Department Professional' which was a must have app at that time that could do all sorts of post processing magic, it came out perfect ,true ray tracing used to take a very long time back then... :P these days we are truly spoilt!

[@djk1288]

You know Guru, I gave it some thought and I _think_ I have an answer for you as for why some of your red sprinkles may randomly turn gold: Floating point imprecision. The gradient system used here uses floating points (decimal numbers) and RNG to mark off where one color ends and another begins. But very rarely when working with floating point numbers does a value actually calculate properly all the way through, because our binary number system can produce decimal values that repeat infinitely and need to be cut off at some point to be properly stored. Meaning what looks like a clean 4.3 to us may actually be represented as 4.3000032571248756234875. Which works fine enough for the most part, but when rendering thousands of sprinkles like we are here, there's a much higher chance a number gets fudged juuuuuuuust enough to fall in between the impossibly small gap where red and gold overlap. tl;dr: The gradients use decimals to show the colors and computers just _barely_ suck at handling decimals.

[@ayaz1979]

Excellent

[@antoniomoreno2837]

Damn, you're so good professor, I'm learning a lot with the tutorials, keep going, we see all the effort u put on this completely free, love u Andrew

[@Wischbert]

I'm still waiting for the geometry nodes for the bumps on the donut itself... as you always say "Imperfection is the real perfection" :D

[@lucaslothbrook5388]

To get metallic and non-metallic sprinkles, I had to duplicate the node again and then attach the second color ramp to the roughness value and make not a b/w scale but a grey scale. Not sure why.... but it worked. I followed the instructions, rewound it a few times.... all metallic

[@iceclaw557]

around 8:50 I found that after a bit of tweaking, the reason that you have an errant purple sprinkle there is because the balance between metallic and non-metalic on your 2nd slider is a tid bit towards the purple side

[@bouazaz05_yt11]

The legend has returned

[@chriskhaukha]

Thank you sir

[@user-lk4kp4by7u]

I am 11, Cant believe i made a way to here!

[@AnimatedPlayer]

What I did for plate: 1.] shift a, sphere 2] delete bottom (deleting up would make it easier but Im stupid) 3] Bring upper parts of sphere to down and flatten them. 4] Make inner rim and the ears of plate. PReety much done, shade smooth, subdivision 2 times, then soldify. metallic 5.o and roughnes 2.0 add tourus for the side rimes and done!

[@BluhBunnny]

i made my donut thank youuuu your litterally so cute

[@Miodowy]

I'm not sure how reliable this benchmark is. Older and cheaper graphics cards are in a better place than newer and several times more expensive ones.