Blender Tutorial - Hologram Shader (Animated)

[@jakewartooth]

I definitely plan on using this tutorial for a future project, super cool

[@PointCloud]

Thank you very much

[@AntonioMBrown]

Value node is not responsive when I type #Frame it turns purple but when I hit play nothing happens. I’ve followed all the instructions

[@PointCloud]

Yes, thats an annoying bug. If you failed the entry or want to change it, you have to redo it completely. Right click -> Delete Drivers. Then you can just type it in again.

[@kenzietownsend6644]

@@PointCloud That happened to me as well. :D

[@ilyaryazanov8890]

@@PointCloud thnx!

[@sm0kyyyy]

Thank you for these nice Tutorial Videos!

[@PointCloud]

Thanks for watching.

[@_TheSpaceBar]

How can I have only the sides facing the camera showing in cycles? Like when you turned off backface in eevee.

[@PointCloud]

Well, you could use a gradient texture to control the Alpha value of the shader which fades out at the back side.

[@_TheSpaceBar]

@@PointCloud I will try that! Thanks!

[@k1Felol]

Hello great lesson. Have a qustion i try a render it on evee but all i get it`s white lines

[@k1Felol]

ALL fixed

[@PointCloud]

Perfect :D

[@pyramoidix]

have a question, how do you export this project to Unity

[@PointCloud]

You don't :D. I doubt that you can export a complex material like this into Unity.

[@miguelcarlos4723]

the animation is not working for me, i repeated the toturial 3 times but still not working, but thanks for the hologram visuals.

[@PointCloud]

Hm, can you send me some screenshots of your shading tree on instagram? pointcloud_tutorials

[@miguelcarlos4723]

@@PointCloud Yes just let me get home, can you give me your email please?

[@sirverbs]

Cool tutorial and it's perfect, but I don't see a way to utilize the displacement mode on Cycles. It doesn't appear the same way it does for you, and it's been a while since the tutorial so I don't think there's the experimental version you're referring to. Edit: Sorry I'm dumb and didnt see you going into the settings tab when changing one of the options :)

[@PointCloud]

When you want to see displacement in Cycles, you have to use the Render Preview. Only there the displacement will be rendered. There are other ways too to displace vertices in Blender, for example a modifier which pushes the vertices a bit around.

[@PointCloud]

Maybe it's disabled for you, if so then go in the Material Tab on the right: Settings -> Surface -> Displacment -> Displacement and Bump.

[@sirverbs]

Yeah I figured it out thanks! I didnt see that you went under settings for displacement and bump, I thought it was just under displacement. That's my bad. I'm having a strange issue where the displacement is only occuring on the flat faces though and not any of the other points I've added. The shape is structured like a cube with some greebles, but has a lot of vertices.@@PointCloud

[@PointCloud]

Displacement only shifts vertices along their normal vector (90° away from the surface). Make sure you don't have any modifiers or something like that interfering or changing the geometry before.

[@routend444]

It's not working for me on text... how can i do ?

[@PointCloud]

Hard to tell with that Information.

[@routend444]

​@@PointCloud I wanted to make an hologramic text but the animation won't work...

[@PointCloud]

What texture coordinate do you use?

[@GhostCorp3D]

Excellent tutorial brother! very good. More tutorials with things that can be used for cyberpunk sci fi genre pls :) 🤟🤘

[@kodi757]

would this work on a image plane?

[@PointCloud]

Sure, you can just use the vertical lines as alpha value for a principled BSDF for example then.

[@kodi757]

@@PointCloud thank you so much! will give it a try ^^

[@Mets_Data]

Great lesson! Thank you.

[@PointCloud]

Thanks! ;)

[@juanchopistola831]

nodo frame?

[@PointCloud]

It's a "Value" Node, I just renamed it.

[@MichaelJacksonthe3rdjr]

Could you do a tutorial about how to do the displacement part in eevee

[@mcateerdesign]

I believe blender guru has one on doing the hologram with geometry nodes but much longer and more demanding on pc than this process but works in eevee

[@PointCloud]

Now with Blender 4.2 you can just use displacements in Shader in EEVEE. Just enable it in the Materials Tab, problem solved :D

[@olivierklompkes6692]

So good thank you 🙌

[@PointCloud]

Thanks for stopping by :D

[@spaceboffin]

Super cool, thanks. Texture coordinates not needed really.

[@PointCloud]

When you work with textures, you always need Texture Coordinates. If you don't use the node specifically, Blender will still use it in the background.

[@spaceboffin]

@@PointCloud Yes, I know. In this case, deleting them made no difference because I believe Generated is the default anyway.

[@MysticOperator]

im trying to add the bumbness but its not working

[@PointCloud]

Bumbness?

[@MysticOperator]

@PointCloud sorry I should be more specific the displacement doesn't work for me when I try the glitch effect like starts to gather at the middle and get like really bold. I restarted 3 times and never got it working

[@PointCloud]

For displacement, you need a lot of geometry.

[@cephalos81]

That is very impressive, however i am searching for resources to actually learn to do this sort of logic on my own. So far all i get from the internet is guys telling me to do this, then do that, do this other thing, boom you are done, and at the end of it i come out knowing how to copy what you did but not learning a single thing on how and why it works like that. What I am actually in search of is the source of such knowledge, books, classes, courses, and anything related to actually learning. Do you have any suggestions?

[@PointCloud]

I give online classes if you want to attend :D

[@cephalos81]

@@PointCloud AND HOW DID YOU LEARN?

[@PointCloud]

@@cephalos81 Hm, over time with tutorials and other people. And additionally I studied CGI in the last couple years.

[@cephalos81]

@@PointCloud ok so you have studied cgi like an actual course at a college or just on your own? Look my friend, i am an autodidact I would be tremendously appreciative if you gave me a list of entry books that actually teach something. (you know the kind of book that brings knowledge+exercises ) Please , for the love of anything you love dear, I do not like being ignorant of something i wish to learn, help me. It bothers me too much that i do not know, it won't let me sleep at night until i grasp this thing at least generally. I need some books on this and i can't find anything on the internet that doesn't feel like a "for dummies clone"

[@PointCloud]

Study like in University, but of course on my own too. Lot of experimenting and developing involved. Hm, it really depends what you want to do, because the field of 3D is very large.

[@lagy4119]

Will this work in cycles? also I love it great tutorial

[@PointCloud]

Sure, but you have to add the glare in the compositor for cycles.

[@radiosilencestaticnoise]

Do you have a tutorial on how to get the last type of distortion or similar effect to work with Eevee? @@PointCloud

[@PointCloud]

You can do tha displacement shift with geometry nodes also.@@radiosilencestaticnoise

[@radiosilencestaticnoise]

Ok I'll try to get it working. Thank you for the response :) @@PointCloud

[@PointCloud]

I have a couple geometry nodes displacement tutorials. Basically "Set position" node.

[@donta42]

awesome! thank you!

[@PointCloud]

Thanks ;)

[@samsdeerhoof]

Great tutorial! What are the best output settings for this if I want to render it out?

[@PointCloud]

Hm, depends what you want to do with it. But I'll use either Bloom (EEVEE) or Glare (Cycles) for the bright light effect.

[@samsdeerhoof]

@@PointCloud cool, and would you render out frame by frame pngs or the entire animation in mp4? Thanks a lot!!

[@PointCloud]

PNG sequence, easier to fix single frames afterwards and you have an Alpha channel then.

[@samsdeerhoof]

@@PointCloud Thanks bro!

[@GoKi-fj4ph]

Thanks a lot, really helpful