Let's Learn Blender! #3: Materials, Textures, Nodes, & HDRI's!

[@patrickleacy4793]

loved following this tutorial. i am 65 years old and partially sighted, i only had to pause a few times as everything was explained so clearly, i look forward to experimenting with these new skills and other tutorials. thank you

[@kunthukothari]

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[@ChokDK-bryllupsmusik-duo]

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[@MakeWithTech]

I was in the computer industry for 35 years, and now that I am retired, I spend a lot of time teaching people about 3d printing and other maker technologies. Blender has always mystified me. However, I needed to master it for a current project. I was ready to create a video teaching my 3d printer subscribers how to create 3d images from their STL files for posting on blogs, forums, and model sites. Before creating the video, I thought I would spend a few more minutes learning more about Blender, and I found your site. Outstanding. Many videos are incomprehensible, given the number of "magic keystrokes" folks use with Blender. Your videos are a breath of fresh air. Thank you, and I will give you a shout-out in my video that I expect to post in the next day or two.

[@Zeeeinez]

Your videos really made me put aside all distractions and discipline enough to learn all the basics. No rush, no shortcuts, clear explanations and fundamental understanding for a total beginner like me. Thank you so much!

[@easontang8932]

I watched all of your 2.8 Blender tutorials when I first started, which is about 6 months ago. I’ve improved a lot more, and your videos were as beneficial as the donut videos to me. Thank you

[@rlrihards948]

Hell yea! This is what I'm talking about! Finally I found tutorials what isn't slow and boring and what actually teaches, not like other ones. Fast, effectively and understandable! Thanks for work you've done.

[@koktabel]

Colin, thank you for all your learning blender videos. Your deep, structured and straight forward explenation of the certain topic are overwhelming. If are you planning to create series focusing on architecture vizualisation we will appreciate it.

[@HelicopterSchool]

Wow! So well explained. Best tutorial I have seen to understand the basics of Nodes. So many tutorials out there are on using nodes to make things but none so far that I have found (except yours) actually just explain node basics. You made them really easy and now I can watch other tutorials out there with much greater understanding! Thank you from Hawaii!

[@jasonblood3775]

This is the best tutorial series for blender without nonsense😀😀😀. Thank you very much!

[@_yellowfruitpunch_6218]

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[@SamB2112]

Wow, this is so packed with information that I have to pause the video almost every few seconds and spend several minutes to actually learn what has been shown in those few seconds. Hahaha. Perfect.

[@eschuurm]

Your tutorials are really good! It's abundantly obvious you are an educator. Please continue creating these!

[@TheSillybits]

Very nice tutorial, no distractions, very clear, and topic all the time. Thanks

[@synthbendati]

Dude you are the best, There is tons of blender texture material toturials but yours is really complete and simple and really helped me a lot. Thank you so so much

[@Neki2K1]

Your video is very easy to understand, some issues other tutorial videos often skip but it is very detailed. Thanks for all!

[@wormholeinteractive]

Amazing series! You are a natural teacher.

[@awg-oc1nu]

Thank you for this tutorial. I have to say that I'm enjoying Blender. I've come much further more quickly than I ever did with 3DS, especially with good educators such as yourself. Thanks again.

[@suchaluch5615]

One can see that you have been teaching for a long time... Great presentation, the repetitions help to memorize, small chunks of information beautifully blended together... Nicely done, I'm really impressed and learned a lot. Thanks!!!

[@rocatalin88]

You are absolutely amazing! Not sure how I didn't get to your channel until now! Can't say thank you enough, for all the work!!!

[@BornCG]

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[@blueroom23]

You, sir, are a GREAT teacher. Thank you! Really appreciate these tutorials!

[@BornCG]

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[@SheenaMeiya]

i learned alot watching this vid kept pausing and repeating til i get every step esp how the confusing shader nodes work .. glad i chose this vid out of many videos here in yt... you explained it well .. just subscribed

[@LaughterCraft]

awesome video!! I'm getting into 3D modeling/animation now, and your channel has by far the best tutorials I've found. Thank you so much for producing these!

[@ArneOlafsson]

Thank you! Super tutorial covering so much in a short time and made easy to understand and follow!!

[@TheMagnel777]

Great video! Fabulous presentation style Colin!

[@BornCG]

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[@Learn3DMasterclass]

I am from Pakistan. I have explored different channels which are very popular like cgcokkies and others but your tutorials are ery helpful instead of those popular names. I m very thankful to you, you guide us very well.

[@just_a_zombie6718]

i'm actually enjoying this more than i thought, thank you

[@gunsbd]

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[@RadioXY]

excellent explanations at perfect speed and understandable words! Thank you, well done

[@boris_a8580]

Really great tutorial, precise and concise. Thanks a lot!

[@ahsnunes]

Thank you for the tutorial. Very well explained and useful!

[@ChokDK-bryllupsmusik-duo]

Most informative and understandable Blender videos ever. Lucky students :) BTW Greetings to you @Patrick Leacy - I'm "only" 60 and just starting with Blender now :)

[@BornCG]

Never too young!

[@mark8664]

Your a great teacher. I'm sure your good students get a lot out of your instruction.

[@mysterious_monolith_]

Best Blender teacher.

[@sparkscomputerprogramming]

just discovered this channel great tutorial man thanks alot

[@888marin888]

Best tuts Ever ! Much Love !

[@darwinmirandalenz]

one of the best tutorial of blender tnat i like because of clarity of the tutorials

[@cliffestes2567]

The tutorial quit working at 37:07 on. Trying to use a mix shader on the environment had no effect, adding a HDRI had no effect and, so, rotating the HDRI didn't work. I learned a lot and will work through some of your other tutorials, tho. Thx. I'm using version: 4.1.1, branch: blender-v4.1-release. If it's a version issue, can you supply me with the appropriate version number so I can finish thet utorial.

[@oniitv11]

Please make more of these videos. Thanks

[@roydondecastro]

you're a really good teacher

[@SheenaMeiya]

thumbs up,, nice tutorial

[@rsher_digital-art]

great intro tutorial. Thanks

[@freakcoding]

Just a tip, if you move the object, you can temporarily get the 'start properties box' back by clicking f9

[@nikomouklab]

Colin your tuts are the most understandable for noobs like me. Thanks a lot.

[@nikomouklab]

Not sure if you’ve already made one on 2.8+ for UV mapping after modeling but this is what I need 😎

[@KaptainKa]

Hi Colin, big fan of your tutorials so far; they're really helping me get into Blender. Quick question: on my blender UI, I don't have the Emission Strength option mentioned at 15:03. The version I'm running is 2.90.1. Is there a preference setting that I missed? Also, the reflections on the reflective surfaces look much noisier on my screen than in the video. Is this a GPU issue or is there something I can fix in the software?

[@BornCG]

Hi there! Check a setting: go to the 📷 tab (second tab or so from the top) in the properties editor, and check which render engine you’re set to. Does it say cycles or eevee or workbench? I’m using eevee in this video, which changes render settings along with some material settings. If it’s noisier it sounds like you may have yours set to cycles.

[@KaptainKa]

@@BornCG I think my reply got filtered because I posted links to show what my Blender looked like. Oh well. My render engine is set to Eevee, and my Material Properties menu is exactly the same as in the video except that it's missing the Emission Strength modifier. It's not super important for what my immediate plans are, but I figure I'd ask in case somebody else needs to know. Either way, thank you so much for being so helpful! EDIT: For anyone still wondering, I updated my Blender to 3.0.0 and the option is now there.

[@TecKnowFreak]

Hi again long time no see been so out of it the last few yrs back to watch and relearn a ton keep up making them i used to do lots of the physic stuff and more but its been many yrs cant wait to get back into it and see how much it has changed! Last time i was trying to make odd stuff cant wait to til u get into that stuff again! Keep up the great work as always!

[@kevinhamill1225]

Great Job again! Thanks!!

[@TheSpeenort]

In my area, snow melts with some interesting properties. There are crystalline shapes that point toward the sun and a lot of sparkles. I took some video moving slowly over the snow so that the sparkles and shapes move. I'd love to have some text with surfaces made from the video I took. This video has pointed me in the right direction, especially the use of nodes. Any further tips would be much appreciated.

[@ZenMasterChip]

Wow! A lot has changed since the last time I was here to learn Blender! I usually have a lot of eggs in one basket, but since I'm now retired, I'm limiting the number of eggs I'm juggling to two. 1. I'm working on my lifelong goal of finishing a science fiction/fantasy book. and 2. As a precursor to buying my dream 3D printer, I'm relearning Blender. I wish we could have been this far by the third lesson the first time you taught me Blender. I once had a great fear of nodes, but you did a great job explaining them. I thought we would be learning cycles, but no! I would love to hear more about what brought this shift to Eevee. i.e., Is that an acronym? What are the differences? How about some history of changes since the early days? (I will look to see if you have videos on this.) I am looking forward to getting back into it, and I am so happy you are still here teaching. I am also glad your new videos have supplanted my fear of relearning all the old early Blender videos. The pleasure index of learning has multiplied tenfold! Thanks for being here for us!

[@sadafnoor5569]

i have no words you re just amazing

[@michaelglancy53]

Thankyou from Scotland :-)

[@karthik-pk7zh]

19:30 after turning on screen space reflection in material properties my obj is emitting yellow light

[@xxsmoothiesxx1996]

Thank you from left to right 00:35

[@xxsmoothiesxx1996]

1:02

[@studiodurhone]

Thank you for this tutorial.

[@aashay]

Waiting for this series.. 😅🙏🏽

[@TheAndrestapa]

Could you please make a tutorial (the nexts of this series) with this quality about texture in blender please? i love your work, i learned a lot with it.

[@mohannadmalik5373]

Very nice video thanks

[@oggamesstudio4852]

Nice brother ☺️

[@antoniowagner8914]

Best tutorial

[@omarlakhfaouni]

Thank you very much

[@أناأحبميمونكاش]

Thank you so much !

[@ghassemfarhany]

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[@HuynhLuong227]

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[@flashplays6489]

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[@pradeephmkumar]

Thank You......Your Awesome....

[@Newspaper7733]

Love ur videos. Keep doing more... ❤️

[@arunvishalsthoughts8028]

tq for this quality tutorial

[@learningMachine1.0]

How is all this content for free? Thank you 🙏🏾. Just what I needed

[@raccoola5089]

Thanks for such a great series of tutorials! Does anyone know how to make it so that I can always see the viewport shaders options at the top of my viewport/editor window? When i have multiple editor windows side by side, and the 3D viewport gets squished, the 4 little globe buttons get cut off behind the edge of my window, maybe because they're always in the top row like the drop down editor tab is. In this video he has them at the end of a second row along with the gizmo + overlay buttons. How do i do that?

[@ezio8000]

Place your mouse pointer over the menu bar (the one you can't see completely) and roll the mouse wheel. The menu bar will pan back and forth.

[@raccoola5089]

@@ezio8000 Thanks, that's helpful! I'm still not sure how he got his buttons on the second row, but your solution works just as well.

[@cjrinfra8890]

cool video

[@j.o.b.1220]

Thanks bro....but what about the godot tutorials🥺🥺

[@waytoofar19]

Can you make tutorial realstic evee rendering for blender also skin and real shadow

[@Kumi.1410]

great....thanks

[@RacimKD]

will using shading and glowing objects in a game reduce fps in godot

[@happysl4803]

Please make videos about camera setup ❤

[@raptecclawtooth9046]

Is possible to add more slots to mix shader?

[@BornCG]

You can add one mix shader after another before the final material output node. eg: mix a and b together, and then mix the result of a and b mixed with c after.

[@TheSillybits]

I have one problem though: I do not see the light of the donut reflected by the brick floor, the rest is exactly the same, I cannot find the cause...

[@itsME-dc4vm]

Nice ;D

[@ThaiBui]

How do you remove the HDRI reflection from the sphere? Can't seem to find info on how to do it in Eevee.

[@BornCG]

Try playing/experimenting with the 'Light Path' node. I think what you're looking for is similar to using the 'is Camera Ray' sky light vs sky color trick in this video, except use 'is Reflection Ray' instead.

[@ThaiBui]

@@BornCG Ah, OK. I'll play with the Light Path node. Thank you so much!

[@thelizardgirls]

I made a rug in Blender with hair, then I downloaded it as a .dae file to my desktop, then uploaded it to my second life, but it didn't come out right..what am I doing wrong?

[@FrostyTheBeerMan]

🚨 ⚠I wonder why the creators of Blender have chosen not to allow modifications to an object once you move it around in a scene. Like changing the amount of segments. Am I wrong in thinking this should be something that should be added ? ... if you look at Cinema 4D, you can do anything with an object and still go back and change the amount of segments... as long as you didn't click "make editable" .... do I have a good point ? I find this is a weak point in Blender.... am I wrong ?

[@JunkyAliveGaming]

3 yeras ago i opened my youtube channel named *joke junkies* following your tutorial, and i have 1.2million subs on that channel. just wanted to say thankYou ☺️

[@holandonhdunto6808]

after years there is a developer group working on upbge, a type of blender game, now they are trying to adapt to blender 2.93, the problem with blender 2.93 it no longer works on windows 7.

[@NeilRoy]

14:33, pacman is about to eat the monkey after he eats that large yellow powerpill.. er... donut! ;)

[@swanbrown]

looks like there is a problem with cc0textures --- Oh, never mind, since you, well, deleted the texture from the node after I went and looked for a close match to your texture, downloaded it for no reason. That's annoying.

[@jasonbowman9521]

Dear viewers and readers. I am mainly interested in knowing how I can put one of my photographs onto my model. I can do this in Blender 2.71 by cutting out appropriate pieces and simply putting them onto the correct locations of the exported UV mesh of the model. I do this all the time in 2.71 but I see no way to do this in 3.0. I also use Emulate numpad but the 9 key only rotates the object. It doesn't open up the little menu that says add mesh or something.

[@BornCG]

If you're looking to add image textures to 3D models, check out a later tutorial in this very 'let's learn blender' series (link in the description). I believe it's tutorial #11.

[@jasonbowman9521]

@@BornCG Thank you Born CG. I did finally get textures to work in Blender 3.0, even older projects I had done but I am subbed and will continue to watch. I never thought I would even get as far as I have. I can make, pose and texture my own models though I'm told I can use some refinement on them :)

[@needler1000]

very good thank you! being old I have to say please don't use our cursor to emphasize your words as we are following your cursor "lesson" it makes me dizzy (well al most) other then that you are brilliant thanks again!

[@alwaysbytheway]

18:18

[@bobrew461]

Fantastic! I used to think Nodes were more scary than Michael Myers AND Freddy Kruger! You've showed me they are just pussy cats.

[@juicypanda94]

the stuff i need explained is the stuff that gets sped through...

[@Goldn123]

cycle solos

[@clairechen2097]

26:19

[@abnernkya5302]

I liked your tutorial in the beginning but later when it came to the environment you used online features and my WiFi is slow so as my computer.thats why i wasn't able to complete your tutorial 😠😠

[@BornCG]

How were you watching this tutorial on KZbin? 🤔

[@UstaPusucu]

hello I am 15 years old. Can you show me how to make a 2d RPG game with Godot and have a story and a speech bubble in it, tell a little fast, it takes a long time ........ .( IM NO ENGLISH GOOGLE ) TRANSLATE :)))))))

[@UstaPusucu]

@Tirth Kavathiya lol

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[@xnet-pvzok728]

LOL i thought this was BoroCG. nvm

[@gulikaontop]

wtf this new intro lol

[@terrarianarjo319]

Weeell blender just crashed....

[@hameruk1987]

Dont bother with this video if you using blender 4.2 because none of the important sections about materials and rendering is not in that blender anymore and you will waste half a day to find it like me !!!!!