How To Make Complex Materials Easily in Blender!

[@AmoghBandekar]

Thanks. I don't have your Realtime Materials add-on but I love that you aren't being very exclusive about it, still making amazing tutorials on procedural Materials.

[@ragnarokgamerzz1631]

bro its free for some limited materials ( but useful) Go gett ittt

[@Eriodas]

Never had the idea of putting 2 separate Principled BSDF and combining them later... that was an eye-opener for me, thank you.

[@BadNessie]

Thank you for explaining all of this in a manner that can be understood even by newbs like me! 👏👏👏

[@TheDucky3D]

I’m glad to hear that!!

[@nathitappan]

I just started watching your tutorials and this one is the best yet! Much rather learn the concepts than just copying exact numbers. Thanks for that! Hopefully I'll find more of your videos like this.

[@TuneyDarko]

I’ve been doing blender for 3 years, this video and it’s explaining left with me with more info than the vast majority of videos I’ve seen

[@masonleblanc6726]

I love that you do constant break downs and recaps through the video. So clear!

[@SpaceManRD]

One downside to procedural scuffs, scratches, etc is that it's kind of 'dumb', and doesn't pay any attention to where wear and tear actually occur (i.e. areas that get bumped or rubbed a lot), not to mention even procedural textures can look kind of uniform over large enough areas. Ambient occlusion nodes and Pointiness can account for some of this, but there's definitely a point where hand-painting things can achieve better results.

[@ya-fj2ri]

True, but a mask can fix this problem. It is hand painting, but not nearly as hard(ambient occlusion is my choice usually)

[@raulgalets]

thats why I use the best of both worlds. I mix procedural and painted materials. Just have my own asset library of precedural materials like wood and glass and then I add imprfections as I please

[@andyloconte]

You explained everything very well instead of just telling us "do this, then do this".

[@jambot4621]

I only started with Blender a few weeks ago and haven't done anything with texture nodes yet. I still managed to understand the steps you went through thanks to your excellent explanations and clear process and I'm incredibly excited to start having a play with what, until 15 minutes ago, looked truly impenetrable to me. :) Thanks so much!

[@2nawbert]

This was SO helpful in explaing materials and nodes. Nodes always seemed way too complicted to dive into at first but now I wanna mess around with it and see what I can come up with on my own :) Personally, I would love a small series (with this material as an example) where you go deeper in complexity and show how you get more and more complex loking materials with more complex node setups because I WANNA KNOW HOW NOW lol. Thanks again Ducky! Enjoyable as always

[@TheDucky3D]

Go to the playlists on my channel and I have one about shading. I think there are two or three videos, called “intro to shading” the thumbnails are pretty bright. That should be what you’re looking for.

[@2nawbert]

@@TheDucky3D Ty!!

[@DerperDaDerpa]

Absolutely kickass, I learn aot by just messing with stuff but I never thought to mix the principled bsdf one with another.

[@luisalejandro723]

Although it's really easy to just buy Realtime Materials add-on and be done, It's super helpful to have knowledge of how the procedural materials work so you'll be able to properly adapt them to your project. Great tutorial.

[@FilmSpook]

We love and appreciate you, Nathan!! Wishing you your Best Year Yet, my Brother. 🙏🏾

[@ВикторУваев-г1у]

Thanks for cool and very simple explaining of nodes materials. I'm not so good in them, your videos allows me to understand this powerful part of blender. Thanks to you

[@TheDucky3D]

I appreciate that!

[@ВикторУваев-г1у]

@@TheDucky3D Hey, bro, do you have some videos about geometry nodes? I really want to learn about it, and other people may learn more cool stuff

[@ParkerLearnsStuff]

Great Video. I've watched a few other videos and the "instructor" just flew through the tutorial making it hard to follow. I really appreciate keeping it simple and how you slowly add each section.

[@JohnnyBlackWinter]

The shader editor always got away from me once the nodes begin stacking up. You explained this so clearly and practically, it was a huge help. Thank you

[@TheDucky3D]

I’m glad to help!

[@DerperDaDerpa]

Yeah that was completely simple, one of the best most succinct generated material explanations out.

[@graphguy]

you are the master! I mostly just watch Blender video's because I don't have time to learn it in depth, but love it. Watching your videos, motivates me that , "I can do that", so humbly thanks!

[@TheDucky3D]

Dude that’s awesome

[@kocurekov2her29]

if you get some rust(scratches, any demage ect.) texture(dark on light) and bump node, you can connect it with the first bump and the texture. Than you get super realistic surface shape control. dont forget on mapping node for that rust texture😉

[@ARANDOMOPENAIUSER]

13:51 going through the workflow process and noting everything we did

[@amoeba23]

Ive watched u for years, learned so many things, this video style ur doing just now with the node explanations and detailed reason for use, is phenomenal...instant understanding of why and how. great stuff. many thanks for your time in making these amazing vids for learning blender.

[@TheDucky3D]

Thank you man that’s very encouraging

[@amoeba23]

@@TheDucky3D your tutorials are fantastic and have taught this auld dug a lot of new tricks.

[@DrummClem]

This is absolutely SICK

[@markramirez5678]

Very good compact tutorial really easy to understand It also really helps when you go back and review/breakdown the components used and the purpose

[@__mihaly4__]

Dude, you are just a master in your field, thanks for such tutorials, keep up the good work!

[@samialhaj]

thanks for this useful tutorial and i do have your RTM add-on its simply amazing :)

[@AnthonyHortin]

Thanks for such a thorough breakdown and explanation on creating these procedural materials 👏👏👏

[@RandMpinkFilms]

Sick video! Thank you for this!!

[@markokovacevic3225]

Thanks Ducky! This is an awesome tutorial!

[@thefreshest2379]

When you mix with a noise it is best practice to use the "linear light" mix mode because noise is on average a value of 0.5, the linear light subracts this without extra nodes (it wont move).

[@skyrider4789]

I need to learn how to do this! Thanks for the video. I'm a new subscriber.

[@simoncodrington]

Great work mate ❤

[@ashhaf63]

Excellent Tutorial

[@KanzakiZD]

you can add bevel shader and add another extra damage texture.

[@Yvuvvviivv]

Nice tuto WE need more video

[@Ahadanimates]

Very cool tutorial bro!!!

[@TheDucky3D]

Thanks

[@Mr.Doruko]

it was a great tutorial. TY.

[@dougieladd]

Very well taught... :)

[@Ratatoeskrrr]

When I saw the thumbnail for the first time, I thought you were modeling a reallife minion

[@Saint-FX12]

I love you bro. You are the best/

[@TheDucky3D]

Thank you dude

[@санитарпсихбольницы]

very nice tutorial userfull thx

[@multiengineer9199]

Great to see thanks

[@yes--mate3]

love it

[@Mirfan162]

Great 👍

[@dcrazygeek0741]

Love the subject

[@TheDucky3D]

I’m glad to hear that

[@jackelzi3257]

can you do a video quickly showing all the materials? i'd love to see what they all look like or most of them.

[@TafferTape]

could you use this to paint in the wear and tear with a mask say?

[@lisa-eh2mr]

Hey! Could you please make a new tutorial on mastering materials in Blender 4.0? Since the software has changed, the old content is outdated. I'd love a comprehensive video using a gas station model to demonstrate all material techniques.

[@renatotarma42O]

Thank you so much for this tutorial! this also works in cycles? or only in evee?'

[@hotsauce7124]

Is it possible to use the "RealTime Materials" as layers in a custom material we would create? So instead of the BSDF that you created, can we use the "RealTime Materials?" If we can do this, can you please make a video describing the process? Thank you.

[@3dthingies]

thx bro

[@Alenori]

Another Question is how to bake those materials in blender in order to export them to other things like Marmoset/Unreal.

[@b.2648]

you're awesome

[@StarcoreHD]

Ducky, do u happen to play any video games and if so, which? :)

[@chanlerlee9900]

Love the the videos. Just wondering what version of blender you think the best to use right now?

[@TheDucky3D]

The most recent version

[@sansdomicileconnu]

nice can you explain how to bake this procedural texture to image texture for game or sketchfab

[@ValeGoG]

10/10

[@arrtma]

so what next that we need to do . for use in unreal engine?

[@TheDucky3D]

Watch a video on baking procedural materials in blender. I have yet to make one myself

[@arrtma]

oh thank u . houu ! hope my pc not crash

[@chomsky72]

For some reason I can't get the HDRI image to show up in my viewport.

[@TheDucky3D]

Weird, are those check boxes showing up?

[@chomsky72]

@@TheDucky3D Ah, I had to crank up the World Opacity option. Is this a special HDRI? It does not show up in the World Node editor. These are great videos. Thanks

[@enotvtapkah2828]

Nice

[@The-Sentinel]

I love this but i wish there was an easier way to do this inside game engines. Player gets damaged, use something like this to show wear and tear on the players materials. The only other way is to create assets the easy way using this add on in blender to export as a static material in your game but i digress

[@TheDucky3D]

Hopefully that will be easier soon

[@gordonbrinkmann]

I heard people say the Mix RGB is gone but I never really realized that until I checked it now... the thing is, I always add nodes from the context menu and never type in the name to search for them... so when I want to add a Mix RGB, I press Shift+A and go to Color and then Mix Color (I didn't notice the name change before) which gives me the Mix node already set to Color. So I just thought, what are you talking about? In my Blender it's still there 😆

[@TheDucky3D]

Yea I think it was a good call making the tree types in one node, tho confusing at first

[@giorgioparravano8552]

DOES it work in a MacBook?

[@HadjFilmz]

Does this work for evee

[@pablog.511]

How much does that addon costs???

[@huslee-j9p]

Please make another intro and post a video

[@bnyatarmy599]

is it too late to learn blender?? one question can AI make animation short movies??

[@TheDucky3D]

No don’t worry about AI

[@pixelvader2451]

I think I have understood it like never before o.O Thank you for that! Maybe my question is very beginner's question, but: Is this exportable outside of Blender? For example, could I take it to a video game engine? Is there a difference between trying to take it to, for example, Unity than to Cryengine? Or would the considerations be the same? Thanks!

[@TheDucky3D]

Procedure materials need to be baked into images and you can do that with a few tutorials that are on KZbin now. And I’m working on an add on that will do that for you.

[@pixelvader2451]

@@TheDucky3D I see. Through a bake. Thank you! And for all your content too.

[@imiy]

So you don't NEED to unwrap if it's procedural materials?

[@TheDucky3D]

Not exactly, the texture coordinate node at the end will dictate that. We used object coordinates, which do not require you to unwrap. But sometimes the way you build a procedural material would need you to use your UV coordinates which you can activate in that texture coordinate node.

[@Ozblivion-Official]

weee

[@princeajaero7903]

Is it me or has his beard always been red or black

[@TheDucky3D]

It’s mostly dark brown with some random red parts

[@princeajaero7903]

@@TheDucky3D oh my god I got replied by ducky🤩🤩🤩

[@aphenier]

Lol first

[@oscarclips4883]

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