Create Glowing Crystals in Blender (No Modeling and No Geometry Nodes)

[@naniizar3d242]

I really like the way you describe the "whys" you do what you do, for me, it is very important to retain the information. I'm here to stay! More magical tutorials! I'm doing assets in blender to use in unreal 4. A workflow tutorial will be amazing.

[@BlenderForge]

Thanks so much for the feedback! It's very helpful to know what I am doing right or wrong. When you say a workflow tutorial, do you mean a workflow for working with Blender for UE?

[@naniizar3d242]

@@BlenderForge YES!

[@dimassuhada1230]

hi bro, can you help me? My first crystal was not transparent, so the purple crystal inside was not visible. what step do you think I missed?

[@BlenderForge]

Hey there 👋The very first thing I would check is to make sure Cycles is selected rather than Eevee.

[@JoeMama-gx5mo]

Hello, nice tutorial. I have an issue, at 4:45 when you do a shortcut by Ctrl+Shift+Left Click and I try to reproduce, it does nothing. I want to know by which node I need to join the color of the PaintedMetal Image. Thanks very much.

[@BlenderForge]

Hi, I know exactly what is happening there. Ctrl+Shift+Left Click will only open the load images window if you have activated the Node Wrangler add-on in preferences. You just need to tick the box next to it's name. I hope that helps!

[@marinamaximchuk4859]

thank you very much!!!🤩😍

[@BlenderForge]

You're welcome 😊

[@grafikbilgisi2179]

Awesome tutorial, thanks :))

[@BlenderForge]

Thank you! I'm happy it's awesome :) Anything stand out as kind of the best parts?

[@grafikbilgisi2179]

@@BlenderForge "Camera, Floor, and 3rd Material" part was awesome

[@BlenderForge]

@@grafikbilgisi2179 oh cool. So bringing the scene all together.

[@geckowingman]

for some reason the Ctrl+T add on did not work for me

[@BlenderForge]

Is the check box ticked next to Node Wrangler in settings?

[@ilarikinnunen8266]

Is it possible to bake this and import it to a game engine?

[@BlenderForge]

Absolutely. So long as UVs are unwrapped you can bake PBR maps. You would need to be sure to bake a transparency map.