Blender Tutorial: Realistic Texturing with Cycles

[@fadhil4008]

It's just to exciting to see old tutorials are still accessable these days to see how many improvement Blender has been improving in the past 10 years

[@dathvader6104]

Your tutorials are still helpful 6 years later.

[@serengeor]

Best tutorials I've seen so far. It's interesting to watch and easy to follow. And unlike most other people you don't over repeat the basics and more obvious stuff over and over again which gets really annoying and repellent to watch.

[@coffeediction]

uhhhhhhh, dude I followed about 3 LONG Tutorials from Andrew, and now I can do pretty much stuff. I'm impressed.

[@coffeediction]

Its me again 7 years later dude, I still am at it. Not sure what I said 7 years ago, but yay me, Im an blender adult now, thanks Andrew

[@ZorlacSkater]

hey andrew, i don't care how long the tutorial is, as long as it is informative like yours are. If the people really want to learn blender, then they shouldn't care about how long the Tutorial is. :)

[@FryCube]

Blender might not be the most intuitive program at first glance, but when the shortcuts are in your fingers, you'll be able to model at an astonishing speed, and everything else will be very fast! :)

[@lukas.r8067]

i can only say THANKS!!!!:) you are the king of blender:D

[@kirilzlatarski]

+Lukas .R and the biggest kachalak :) what are you hunting kengrus maybe

[@lukas.r8067]

+kiril zlatarski im german and i dont know what u wanna say but im sure that its not polite :D

[@kirilzlatarski]

no is not :) have a nice day the world is too I don't know the word to say something polite here in 3d objects

[@jasonmclaren8752]

By far the best tutorials for blender on youtube. Thank you!!

[@LarsGavris]

Not sure if you know that by now, but: instead of clicking one vertex of a mesh and then "Ctrl - L", you could simply -hover- over the vertex and click "L" It just makes things quicker :)

[@mutantgenepool]

For a free program, that, mind you, a lot of dedicated folks put hours of hard work into, is a fantastic program.

[@JoannaHammond]

You really should redo this, blender has come so far and so have you.

[@beachdancer]

Wonderful image, but wow how much work it takes and how much knowledge. I enjoyed watching and thinking that I am following it, but I have already forgotten how to do it.

[@refa42]

In Gimp, windows menu -> single window mode. I also can move the layers all I want. It shows a line where you're moving the layer to. I'm on Linux though, so there might be differences. And thanks for the tutorial. Cycles tutorials are always needed and this continues on that path because it's still under development and gets new features.

[@daswada9]

Its gonna be good if he makes a tutorial for realistic materials with blender render only so we can see the difference, thumbs up if you agree.

[@runizgozilla]

you didn't mention it, so in case you don't know, the IOR value stands for Index of Refraction. There are values that different materials have, for example: water is 1.333, ice is 1.309, and glass is 1.52. Just in case you didn't know :D

[@Keenixo]

just a quick tip, you can add a masking texture to the roughness of the gloss... it gives you some pretty interesting shine effects

[@berlinmark]

as always great work Andrew. I am hooked to your tutorials since the orange tutorial. Would be great if you could show how you could setup the materials for the orange with cycles

[@H0mN1H]

If you're in Blender 2.63 the option to use the GPU for rendering is in File->User Preferences->System and then choose OpenCL under Compute Device.

[@MasterCytron]

This is one of the best and the most useful tutorial from you! Please, keep up the good work! Thanks!

[@ToaOfTech]

I haven't even watched this tutorial and i already know what the next one will be!

[@rawtee8957]

love your tuts they're always so complicated..smirk.. good place for a mental meltdown :)

[@HephaistosForge]

Amazing tutorial. One of the best ones I've ever seen. You do much better tutorial, than I do. ;)

[@shredhappy101]

In an image editor, make the area around the lemon black, then enable alpha for the texture.

[@kjemradio]

Amazing tutorial Andrew! BTW you do not have to apologize that you hunt. That's part of the worlds problem these days. Everyone is too afraid of offending everyone else. If you hunt that's great, and if you don't that's fine too.

[@N0WARE]

you are the BEST!! i have all your videos downloaded right after a min u upload IT too!!

[@sonofhendrix]

Amazing tutorial, this is the first time ive looking into realistic materials as im new to the whole 3D artist and blender scene. A bit fast in places but nice and in-depth. And now for the full render yikes.. The joys of being stuck with an AMD HD7970 card. No GPU compute for me. silly me i should have known all this before i purchased AMD.

[@bawagrafix]

Try baking in render, a new technique in blender 7.1, which bakes all your lights & shadows in a bitmap file, even good results without compromising cycles, fast enough as blender render

[@RaichuWizDom]

Check the Alpha Mapping in Cycles Tutorial. It should be listed along with this one. Basically you use a mix shader of transparent and diffuse materials, with an image texture linked to the factor to map which parts need to be transparent. I think; new to it myself, only made a feather the other day ;3

[@SuperPasshacker]

Bump Maps and Mix nodes is what I was missing, Finally I can make my Coffee Cup.

[@herp_derpingson]

IOR = Index of refraction For diamond it is 2.42 For glass it is about 1.5 :)

[@saumilsunilshah5663]

for wter it is 1.330

[@LizandroFlores]

Excelente VideoTutorial, Gracias por compartirlo, me esta sirviendo muchisimo para comprender y practicar como trabajar texturas compuestas..

[@ToaOfTech]

I will show you my results when i can see the results you have posted above. It says page not found. Maybe a screwed up and made mine look the same and maybe it is a blender glitch but the only difference i find between the two are the speed. CUDA is faster. Happy blending!

[@VGSoundtrackRemix]

Seriously? you can do incredible animations using blender, don't underestimate a free program

[@engelant]

Very nice walktrough, nice to listen to.

[@ToaOfTech]

I have rendered with both. So yeah it does. Only one says supported but both work well.

[@bawagrafix]

A very informative tutorial, so much complicated,but good, I learnt proper use of bumps, liked the tricky glass light, good technique at floor board i.e. modeling floor according to texture to give much realistic look. any way andrew I liked a gun in your hand for hunting!

[@rawtee8957]

Andrew Sir, you need to make more interior blends "Sir". Thanks. I hope you and you lovely wife are happy! be well.

[@YousifPhotoshopTutorials]

that was soooooo helpful thank u guru ♥

[@amorph2011]

welcome back!!

[@vBlackVFX]

It is called matchmoving or camera-tracking! A.P. has a tutorial about that topic...

[@Quaellchen91]

Thank you so much Andrew. I've been remodelling my own living room (due to lack of inspiration atm ^^) and my cupboard looks sooooo shitty...Just quickly a suggestion: A short tutorial on UV Mapping and also Node Editor would be grand.

[@FeelingTehRUSH]

FUCK SIGNS MAN! I legit had fucking nightmares for years after watching that movie lol XD

[@pencils1951]

Mr. Price could make waffling an Olympic sport. He certainly loves the sound of his own voice.

[@aionard3491]

Hi! I've been browsing your videos for a while since I've just started 3d modelling and texturing, In your other (cobble road) video, you use different textures for bump/spec, whereas here you just use colour ramps to adjust the contrast from one root texture. Is there a major difference/advantage of one over the other? Thank you so much for all the time spent on these vids, awesome work!

[@cyndispace1]

This is a great tutorial. You should update the links to your website. 😉

[@liuc94chek]

i think that is better in rendering a plane with emmision that 3 point of light is correct andrew?

[@rudylynx9594]

Realy phantastic , so amazing and so speedy congratulation ;)

[@captainchaos3667]

Isn't the problem with the glass because you appear to have a solid chunk of glass there, instead of a glass wall with an inside and outside surface and air inside, like a real lamp?

[@MrOtacar]

Amazing tutorial once again! But I have just one little problem. When I go to the compositor, alpa over node does not work since there is no alpha to put anything on it. Could you tell me what to do? I have watched this tutorial 4 times to see if I missed something and I am really frustrated. Oh and I`m using Blender 2.66a

[@BlenderLeonTutorials]

Very good tutorial! How did u model the cable? With a cylinder?

[@Altohamy]

this tutorial will not be outdated"until cycles is outdated".

[@joseh4930]

Thanks from Spain ;)

[@Dogelition]

Awesome tutorial! Exactly what I needed!

[@lkdriver22]

Thanks for the answer! It works! Now i can enjoy cycles too :D Again thank you!

[@CYON4D]

Very nice scene and tutorial.

[@ToaOfTech]

I did. i could not find the page. But i can quickly make a few renders and give you the examples i was talking about.

[@afronaut0]

Hey, I'm trying to create 3D objects like this lamp and incorporate into a real life video. Do you know how I could do this, or what that may be called?

[@graphicsdessert]

woohoo great tutorial cycles rocks !!!!!!!!!!!

[@karlpokus]

Looks great!

[@WeimFam]

can you do a series of tutorials on character modeling and animation?

[@psantos22]

Cool!! Looking forward to view it. By the way, where do I get the materials? There's kind of missing the link. : (((

[@ThysiosX]

I'm pretty sure 3Ds Max can do a lot more than blender. I've heard animating in max is way better and you can download countless user-made plug-ins to use in 3ds max for pretty much any thing. It's also a good program to know because a lot of companies in the industry use it. Although it's expensive, students can get a free licence from Autodesk.

[@kekskekskeks112]

I have a problem with the glare node at the compositor it just won't work I do every thing exactly like you but there aren't any streaks at all. Could you please tell me how to fix this problem?

[@miguelbarroso6]

JUst wanted to say Thanks again. As always amazing!!

[@BeamNgPro]

It's Amazing!

[@shukfahid]

love your tuts, you have good form boy!

[@potenvandebizon]

Cycles is awesome!

[@PureFuzzion]

What GPU do you have and all the other specs like ram, processor , and motherboard , because i am buying a PC and I can see that cycles rednders pretty fast on your computer

[@megastarsecret6069]

hi, have you tried lagoa rendering...I wonder if it worthy to study lagoa renders instead of blender

[@NurhadiSA]

wow... i like your creation guys...

[@Oyikell]

A question: is it possible to "restrict" the effect of a node/group of nodes in a object??. The thing is that I have a diffuse texture that has metal and skin. Recently I've found a bundle of materials for blender cycles, and I wanted to know if there is possible to apply certain material in certain parts of the texture and some other material in other part of the same texture.

[@SpiderPigRS]

hey andrew price ive been attempting this for a long time but can you make a video on how to make a M! abram tank plz thanks

[@ToaOfTech]

Cycles has GPU rendering support for opencl as well as CUDA.

[@GengoNoTabi]

Great tutorial! Thanks

[@janisgs]

hey Andrew, big fan of yours. Is it possible to generate/bake Normal textures from bump/displacement map created with Cycles Render?

[@MinZ3]

why are you confused about the mix node/multiply node? It says 0.5 at the beginning so the bumpmapping is reduced by a half. this makes sense for me

[@JeremyredlinuxRoberts]

what were you hunting? don't be ashamed of hunting with your dad, thats quality dad/son time. great tutorial and photos too.

[@geek113377]

To elaborate: he said "only supports CUDA," which sounds as if that is the only rendering option at all. It isn't. It's the only GPU rendering option. You can also render cycles on the CPU, it's just slower. You can't yet use AMD (ATI) cards, though.

[@ArmisHart]

this is very ..confusing... i have the newest version of blender and this was in 2012 did they fix it so when you do UV that your texture doesnt go away now like it did to you on bottom left?

[@ThomasPendergrass]

Thanks for this! sometimes it's hard keeping up with all of Blender's new features.

[@DaCoder]

Great work! I need to start doing blender again... Can you do a GLSL texture tutorial?

[@packardcustompersonalcompu9839]

i grew up on farmland in saskatchewan in canada, some of the farmers used to pay me to get rid of pests, coyotes, gophers, beavers and what not, so i understand what u mean

[@hizkialevinnsouwandi7071]

Blender Foundation is great software to make any animation films

[@Toebiscuit]

Lux sounds amazing. But PITA to try to install. I gave up.

[@skillzorskillsson8228]

Hmm, maybe i'm wrong but i kinda think you had a tutorial before from when you modelled this lantern? i have been looking for it but i cannot find it anywhere

[@geek113377]

The time was not wasted, since I wasn't using it (or planning on using it) for anything better.

[@ArmisHart]

?? as soon as you split it into 4 i did exactly as you did. i clicked uv image editor and exited the render result...your umm uv or whatever im new so whatever is on this youtube video on the bottom right...i dont see that. i downloaded this starting file too. am i missing something?

[@VGSoundtrackRemix]

What limitations does blender have? I have never used 3ds Max, but i doubt it can do more than blender can. 3ds Max just might seem that way because its (possible) easier to learn.

[@daswada9]

How can make it effect only the rust or the metal also to have a mirror effecting only one texture like in this part here 15:00 in Blender Internal ?

[@indigo-lily]

Blender might not specifically be TheModsForGames friendly, but I find it much easier to use than cinema4d.

[@xXtutorialmakerxX1]

Very Exciting!

[@BaDiLi2L]

andrew~ can i use your rustic lantern shot image for my school design paper? I wanna use it as brainstorming image for my concept called lanter. It will be one of 8 images but no explanation... since im more focusing on the concept explanation than the images i used. im an architectural lighting design major! let me know if its okay! thanks

[@whitestar8693]

You should provide a tutorial on how to make realistic people

[@EdwinvandenAkker]

What about going out on the streets with a DSLR? ;-)

[@AmarrIndustrial]

Have you considered sex?

[@whitestar8693]

#1 it was just a suggestion and I wasn't talking to you. #2 Your comment has nothing to do with this, if you wanna make dumb comments, go on Facebook, there's plenty of your kind there

[@MrBraianlc]

Now the render layers have an exclusive tab. Is the tab right next to the render tab, which looks like one picture on top of the other. ;)

[@JBHMEDIA]

Cycles is awesome! But for some reason when I try to render my final animation my computer crashes. Do you have any tips? Or do I just need a new computer? Brad

[@TheMrkarsy]

Where do you get those nice textures?

[@SylarArt]

Blender Cycles is the best.

[@shubhamshetkar4406]

I want this model and other scene content and textures to practice this

[@ArmisHart]

when you go to google images you can just download the jpeg image from that website without even loggin into it... because it looks like they have some limit to how much you can download from that website apparently

[@lkdriver22]

Awesome tutorial! But one question, my pc isnt so bad (my specs are: ATI Radeon HD 5700 4GB RAM Procesor: FX4100 (3,6GHz)x4) and i have the problem with cycles that it takes a looong time to render, so i can forget real time rendering. What i'm doing wrong or is my pc realy to bad für cycles? Would be nice if you answer :) Sorry for my bad english, it isnt my native language.

[@lkdriver22]

Thanks for the answer! I hope it will work in future :D