How To Make A Procedural Rock Shader In Blender (2022)

[@Mind_Splitter]

Great tutorial! It's mind blowing how many kinds of surfaces you can realistically replicate with just a few layered texture nodes

[@CuttingEdgeSchool]

This was soooo cool!!!

[@Taco-wh2rj]

Thank you so much!! This is very useful and i believe you could even use this to create planets. When you are adding in the color set the lowest value to a blue color and then going up add your beach color, then land, then mountain, and finally peak.

[@soybil7881]

Nice I can make rock now

[@cg_cookie]

Enjoy!

[@pmaproALTductions]

This is super realistic and great, you should do a 3D scan tutorial though because that has the possibility of being way more realistic without being too taxing on the lower end computer. It’s also just a fun thing to do!

[@wesselvermunt8514]

Ive been using blender for almost 1.5 years now and just seeing shader tutorials always blows my mind like how do you come up with taking the normals from texture coordinate and separate it into xyz. I always try to use a gradient texture but it never works for me ):. Thanks very much for the tutorial!!

[@cherubim5644]

Thank you so much Chris :) you explain and teach in a way that is simple and understandable and at the same time, contents are very essential.. Very very helpful for beginners like me..thanks..God bless you..

[@abrahamdrinkin6550]

Brilliant tutorial.

[@Jham3D]

Great tutorial about drive and power 💥 Fr though, always great stuff here!

[@flying_redkite]

Super clear!! Thank you !

[@siriogori7119]

This tutorial rrrrocks ! :)

[@soloCRPG]

Excellent tutorial. Sub'd.

[@여태영-n2y]

Thank you so much

[@neerajbhatt3368]

Just SIMPLY Great, clear and concise tutorial....could you post the Node set up...I messed up somewhere and am getting weird renders...

[@jeffhowe2892]

Very Nice. How does a procedural texture compare to a PBR made with bitmaps for render time?

[@metahimik]

thank you very much - it would be useful

[@sarahluv6228]

I could really use a fur shader tutorial. Like this tutorial, not trying to add additional geometry. Do you happen to have one I can watch or know of one?

[@vilanstrikegaming5114]

thanks!

[@GruselPusel134]

Its really cool, but we have 3D scans for realistic rocks

[@mirai1073]

it will save your memory if you making a big project instead of making a scene. Perhaps

[@Great.Milenko]

the point is, to populate a scene with scanned rocks you need a whole bunch of them, or you use the same few several times, making procedural rocks can allow you to make infinite rocks with no effort.

[@SuWoopSparrow]

Scans with no real control over texture, shape language, etc? Nah. Theres a reason the best projects use little to no scanning.

[@luminousdragon]

#d scans are excellent for some projects, and not useful for others. it depends on what you are trying to accomplish.

[@coldspark290]

@@luminousdragon exactly . have you tried fracture on scanned models ? its a nightmare . most of the time the normals are all over the place and the mesh is usually too dense

[@mouammarcharlot7718]

how do I save this to look exactly like this and not just gray when I want to export it to another engine?

[@safeerkhan6802]

why you using mix node even you can do this final result 5:21 with only one node

[@allenl9214]

How to make rock texture that can be 3d printed?

[@luminousdragon]

Rock "textures" are a false 3d that gives the illusion of 3d. for 3d printing you with need to model the actual crevices you want to print. This can be done by hand, you can search "sculpting a rock in blender", keyword "sculpt". Or you can do it procedurally, with nodes, for this you can search making a rock with procedural displacement. (if you do it this way, youll have to turn it into a mesh you can print, but theres tutorials on that.) Lastly, you could buy/download a premade rock asset from a asset store.

[@Lluc3D]

I know is a rock tutorial but I see something very different...

[@ninja_tony]

Ok? What's the point of commenting if you're not even going to explain. It's a rock, it looks like a rock, seems pretty straight forward to me.

[@ObscureHedgehog]

Not tryna be mean, but why does anything made with Blender's voronoi, noise and musgrave nodes have this cheap look to them, even though it may look realistic? Every time I see a terrain generated by these nodes through displacement, it's very apparent it was made with these nodes. Same with this rock. Same with surface imperfections made from them. I don't know the technical reasons behind why I can tell them apart, but it's easily identifiable. Anyone else feel this way? If so, I'd like to see an explanation as to why it looks cheap compared to a photoscanned rock for instance. Would also like to know if other DCCs have this issue as well.

[@Binod167]

Hlo bro Pls I want tutorial on how to install blender in 32 bit without graphic card plssssssssssssss

[@DarkSideKyp]

Sorry to have to break this to you, but there have been no 32-bit Blender updates since 2019, so you can’t.

[@Great.Milenko]

@@DarkSideKyp also he would need the ability to render opengl 4.3 at the bare minimum, whilst there are integrated graphics and APUs that can do this, the fact he is using 32bit OS tells me he is on an OLD machine.

[@ninja_tony]

If you want to do 3D at all, even as just a hobby, you'll need a decent computer. Even if you could get Blender running, you wouldn't be able to do much with an outdated system. But there are a lot more options now than ever, if you can't afford to build or buy a new pc, you can rent to own, though it costs more in the long run. But I would suggest saving for a decent computer, or upgrading the one you have now, but you will HAVE to have a good graphics card and decent ram.

[@Binod167]

@@ninja_tony yah bro U r correct

[@Great.Milenko]

@@Binod167 umm technically you could get by with an old quad core and a GTX750ti and 8GB of ram the experience wouldn't be nice but it would work, you would NEED a 64bit OS though, and a 750ti is a fairly weak gpu for 3d work. although it would let you do some sculpting , some materials stuff, some light rendering etc. eventually you would need to upgrade anyway since you would hit limitations fairly soon. you could learn on it, but eventually you would want something more usable.