Professional Texturing Made Easy in Blender 2.80

Here is a full video lesson on using the Mask Node. A free tool used to add quick professional effects to your models. Cheers!
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[@vstreet7583]

After 40 years working as a 3D product designer I have now moved on to a new venture using Blender. Your videos are an inspiration and so helpful. They will enable me to create my own vision and then hopefully, in time, I will be able to offer financial support. Thank you seems hardly sufficient but that's all I can say at the moment. So. THANK YOU. I can see that Blender 2.8 is a game changer and will enable so many more creative projects to be developed. Your proposed series of videos would be an incredible resource. Thank you once again for sharing your talent and knowledge. Really looking forward to this new adventure. Dg

[@souledge2k5]

Great video. I agree - You should build this into a series with an environment render at the end.

[@CTRL_SMarcos]

Another excellent video. A small tip, at min. 7:26 if you use CTRL+SHIFT+D to duplicate the node, the connection to the Mapping node will be done automatically. Thank you so much for the incredible content of this channel.

[@WaywardArtCompany]

That's an AWESOME tip, MAK9! Thanks!

[@globglob3d]

Great tip!

[@geraintedwards7481]

As a newbie I've watched loads of videos on Nodes but this taught me so much. Brilliantly paced and explained. Thank you

[@richardrobert6081]

I am personally so thankful you shared this node for free, may you be blessed

[@michaelsmusicinstruments9980]

this video is one of the TOP10 Blender tutorials on KZbin. You make us look like professionals, even though you did all the work. I am sure a place in the Blender Heaven is already reserved for you :-). Thank you SIR

[@adnauseum917]

I hope you keep making these tutorials. By far my favorite channel. I'm new to 3D and Blender, no experience really at all, and I have no trouble following your videos. The pace is perfect and you explain just the right amount of detail. One thing I'd really love to learn more about, that I haven't really seen anywhere, is HOW to select the right textures when you're searching the vast resources available. Thanks again for the great work and helping us new folks find our way!

[@reenko]

Professional and easy to understand as always thx a lot for sharing, yes I'd like to see a serie on this

[@globglob3d]

Are the devs aware of your Mask node? Would be great to see it implemented, Blender really lacks a good edge wear kind of node out of the box. Also I'm proud to be your first patreon! You helped me see the power of Cycles in 2.8 and get my head around a few things, I've watched some of your tutorials 4 or 5 times as they are packed with informations, thank you for that!

[@WaywardArtCompany]

Wow, thanks so much! I'm very grateful. I don't know if any devs have seen this, but it's pretty far from perfect. There is so much more to be done. I actually may need to break it up into several nodes, so that it doesn't become all jumbled. Thanks again for the support and the kind words. :)

[@CGSiino]

Quick tip when baking the textures. Since you are attaching an emmision node to view the individual textures in the node editor, when you bake you can actually set the mode to emmision instead of combined. That way you can change your samples to 1 and get a much faster bake. The only texture you'll have to wait a bit longer for would be the normal map.

[@dwaschow]

A brilliant tool that obviously took a lot of work and thought. And an in-depth tutorial on how to use it to boot! I encourage everyone to support Wayward Art on Patreon (if they can) so we can hopefully get more amazing tools and tutorials from them.

[@dwaschow]

... I agree that the video could do without the musical soundtrack, though. ;-)

[@arondenouden5932]

you should DEFINITELY make that series

[@Penguinz4LOLZ]

Fantastic tutorial, very informative and easy to understand. Sped it a bit up so it only took me a few minutes as well!

[@unfa00]

I've inspected your Mask Node Group and there's some very clever stuff in there! I would never think about using the Bevel node to extract the edges - this is far better than using the Geometry/Pointiness, because it's not dependant on the mesh density and face distribution. I hoped the "leak" will be something better - I've tried doing this myself, but ended up using a stretched noise texture combined with normals just like you did. I wish there was some way to actually direct the noise mapping based on the mesh slope, so it'd really form streaks following gravity, not just more or less, going towards the ground, which is what this so far is. On completely vertical surfaces like this oil drum - this works great, but for anything with a bit more slope it falls apart quickly. I am very thankful that you've shared this!

[@Fin365]

I'd definitely tune in for a full series of this sort of thing. Just followed this one through and learned alot. Thanks very much for this wonderful content and in particular for the good teaching.

[@SrujanRaghavendra-y9h]

A series like this would be amazing. I hope you have already started creating it. Love all your tutorials. Thanks.

[@ellepelle2379]

I think that a series would be awsome! Love your tutorials

[@needles50]

Hi Michael, Thanks very much for another great tutorial. Please, please make this part of a series of objects. I am trying to design a fictitious airfield for Prepar3D and this sort of object will be very pertinent to it. I for one will definitely be following. Thanks again.

[@warwicklambertcom]

That was fantastic...the node is a gift from the Heavens...thanks....it was also a bonus to grow more accustomed to 2.80.

[@KaletheQuick]

This is amazing, you are amazing, your quest is amazing. Take my money. This reminds me of Andrew Price's tutorials before he had poliigon.

[@ChristinaMcKay]

Thanks for the mask node and this great tutorial. A small tip: instead of using the edge split modifier (which really splits the mesh in different parts if it is applied) you can activate the Autosmooth and adjust the angle. Or go to edit mode and use the split command from the mesh menu. If you are interested in more information, I have a video about that.

[@borakian]

You blow my mind. Great idea making this into a series with a scene at the end to cap,it off.

[@gunnaryoung]

I would love to see you do more objects like this one! Love that idea

[@Drums712]

Hey! Fantastic! Thank you for a very comprehensive tut. And thank you for answering the question regarding the edge effect in EEVEE. Great Job! My vote... yes on the series!

[@icedriver2207]

Really like how you handled edge wear in your Mask Node

[@WiggleThemNibblets]

I would absolutely love a series on this kind of stuff. Love your content!

[@Hashirama_Sinju]

LOVELY. thanks for nice tutorial mask node and your nice presentation

[@thomasschreiber9884]

Easy to follow and educating thank you 4 this tutorial =D

[@sharonsmit6579]

So much potential!!! Thank you so very much, I have no doubt that your work will reach top-ranking results soon.

[@3kroot1]

Thank you for this great Tutorial, I have learned so much. One tip though, if you change the tile size in the performance tap to the same size of the image you are baking to, the baking would extremely fast.

[@zapfsaeule2]

Thank you so much! I slowly get more and more familiar with 2.8 and thats because of such great tutorials like yours!!!

[@lukeatkins9137]

Yet again an absolute belter of a tutorial. Thank you

[@Bringidon]

its 3am and I'm lying in bed watching because I cant sleep... now I may have to get up and open up blender... thanks ;)

[@WaywardArtCompany]

Sorry for contributing to your insomnia. I get sucked into late night youtube browsing, as well. Haha

[@Bringidon]

​@@WaywardArtCompany heh... couple of years back, I followed a fire hydrant tutorial which used Substance Painter (30 day trial) for texturing... your node will provide a valuable alternative... thanks again :)

[@PaulysGarage]

That is a great tutorial. I have watched a few of them now and I really appreciate your work. Thank you.

[@igorwilczynski3266]

Thank you sooooo much for uploading another video on material (and the mask node). I hope well for you and your channel! Thank you again it helped me a lot!

[@WaywardArtCompany]

Thank you! I'm going to try to upload videos more frequently than before. I already have so many planned. :)

[@igorwilczynski3266]

@@WaywardArtCompany Super!!! You have just made my day :3 (thank you)

[@rohitjohn6180]

Yes I would really like if you could make a series

[@kp_ke]

You are f*****kin badaasss! Very good delivery of information. I've been struggling with shading for so long and this 28 minute video has explained soooooo frigggin much. Keep doing you thing and yes on the series. Subscribed and notification alert set.

[@fmenezes6272]

plz make this the series i really love how do you explain all things

[@GBusso]

This is fantastic, many thanks for both the excellent tutorial and sharing the node.

[@travelbugsphoto]

Very interesting, and somewhat beyond my current ability.... but very well explained , some videos move so fast us basic people get lost in the dust.

[@marcvandenbroeckDaKawa]

Brilliant video.

[@JaredOwen]

Your videos are great - keep it up!

[@CZghost]

Wow, now I certainly know how to make complex model textures :) Great video :)

[@eazyvfx7360]

I'd love to see a series of these man!! love your works..

[@leviathan4367]

really amazing tutorial thank you, would be great if this could be a series

[@lukayz1363]

thank you...can't wait for more content

[@darrennew8211]

Fun fact: That''s a 55-gallon drum. That's also how much is in a "barrel" of oil, when you hear something like "oil is $70 a barrel." So now you know why all the games set in modern times use the same barrels.

[@WaywardArtCompany]

That is a fun fact! Thanks! Kind of sad they usually get blown up in games. Haha

[@TrinhStudios]

Waiting for the day that we can have edge detect mask node in EEVEE

[@torq21]

There is a great little addon (paid) for material baking its called Simplebake. It bakes all of your maps at once. Its the kind of functionality Blender should have built in but whatever.

[@earlygamer3590]

Please make more procedural texturing video , Loved it.

[@unfa00]

Instead of mixing the individual texture maps you could have just as well fed them into their respective shaders, and use a single shader mix node after that. The node tree would be much simpler and you would have saved yourself a lot of work.

[@Zoltansfire]

Definitely make video of putting all stuff together :) thanks for great video

[@raullg95]

The great thing is, that when you have everything bake you can add painted detail more easily

[@globglob3d]

You don't need to bake to add paint detail, just create a new image texture (with alpha at 100% so it's fully transparent) and mix it with the rest of your node tree with a mixRGB node, with the factor being the alpha of your newly created image texture. Then you can paint on top of everything if you so wish to do so. If you bake then paint on top it's also fine but you'll have to bake again to export to a game engine, it will also limit you if you want your painting to be affected by some particular nodes as you can basically mix your new painted image any way you want within your node tree.

[@raullg95]

@@globglob3d Good point, thanks for the advise

[@renatobaltazar228]

you can click ctrl+shift+T on the principled shader and then select all the textures you need

[@mjolnirproductions1]

Hey! Just found your node and it's so incredibly useful/powerful. I am hoping to see an update soon, as the AO dirt mask has me excited! I had a suggestion, but I don't know how possible it is. Would it be possible to implement a way to drive some of the masks (like the edge mask) with the baked normals for an object? Similar to how Substance Painter can have masks driven by that same data? This would be quite handy.

[@TheYollob]

Thank you for this, Mask node is very cool

[@blenderrender9222]

Great tutorial, thanks a lot!

[@321357w]

Great video, very informative and look forward to more.

[@circle2867]

i'm glad i have substance painter now after watching some of this. great video as always.

[@Gothdir]

Damn thats really nice and easy. You found a new subscriber my good friend :)

[@SaschQuasch]

Owaaaa! excellent node works.

[@zachvogel9957]

very nice work :) im sorry i dont have online paying possibilities.

[@eirish9286]

This is such a good tutorial.

[@noosman16]

I am so impressed!

[@kalkiavatar8121]

Am waiting for your scene creation series

[@jeffg4686]

This is simply freakin awesome.

[@saifroshdy771]

this stuff is amazing !!!!!!!!!

[@joakimolsson3d433]

About the bunch of objects that'll turn into an environment: YES! DO IT :D

[@Z3AL]

I followed this tutorial exactly but for some reason the Edge Mask just won't show up for me. I've messed around with it a lot and I just cannot get the edge mask to work. Any tips please?

[@drumzbysandy5758]

It does not work on eevee apparently it. Only woks on cycles

[@AA-hg7xq]

Hi and thanks for your work. YES to the series. Please get rid of the music, it's irrelevant, distracting, we can't mute it cuz ur talking, and btw we have our own. This is a lot of shader work for one object, can't imagine a scene w pbr through out?

[@SlyNine]

I didn't know you could mix normal maps like that

[@WaddleQwacker]

Am I the only one hating the edge split modifier? It does split the mesh and unless I really need it, I'll prefer other methods like auto smooth and sharp marks.

[@omri1324]

Awesome tutorial!

[@carlgreen4222]

At 5:59, what are you doing to add in the nodes for the HDRI background? And thanks for the great tutorial!

[@tech.mindset]

i would like to know too

[@DiegoVelascoVolkmann]

Ctrl + T, it automatically adds an image texture, the mapping node and the texture coordinate, all already connected

[@JorgeDiaz-cp3xc]

you need to activate the add on: Node Wrangler first in preferences and them ctrl+T :)

[@yavalang]

thx for this excellent tutorial

[@OscarAdan]

Thank You very much. This is very interesting!!

[@pravia3dstudio699]

thanks a lot for this video. is realy helpful! :)

[@ShockwaveStu]

Great video very much appreciated,....just one small thing to mention you have spelt Height wrong --> ( ground Dirt Hieght))

[@arielgimenez_95]

excellent

[@gamesquad1046]

Great idea

[@understandingthe21stcentur16]

Great work, thanks.

[@Av8rThor]

Nice video! One question and one comment. Why do you mode links have a curve to them, mine are straight and when there are a lot of them it gets confusing! Now the commentZ although you drum/barrel looks incredible. Typically they have two mid rings not three (those are pretty rare). Having worked in the emergency services for 35 years including hazMat I have rarely seen a three ring drum. When I did they were much larger than a regular drum. FYI realism and all that :) keep up the great work. I bought you mask tools now to figure them out! Watched yer videos but it would be nice if you did a noses for dummies with your software. Stop by step. You jumped around so quick I kept getting lost 😑

[@RREDesigns]

You can control the fall off for the node links somewhere, I just don't remember where exactly. By default they are not straight though, so how did you mess that up? xD EDIT: I just checked, go to Preferences > Theme > Node Editor > Node Curving and set it to whatever you like. :)

[@Plagueheart]

Have you thought about adding your Mask Node addon to GitHub this way people can download when ever there's an update

[@upbgenoob5488]

Hello and thank's so much for this great tutorial!!!I have a problem with the node!!!I am trying to mix just some Principled BSDF to see how it works but the edge mask doesnt work!!!Everything else works fine (ground dirt,leaking mask etc.)Any ideas...?My node setup is 2 Principled BSDF to a Mix Shader and the "Mask Node" on Mix shader's Factor!

[@manollobango]

Thanks a lot! I was looking for a tutorial like this regarded to bake game ready assets with cycles. So now I don't really need substance painter anymore ^^ But does this also work in Blender 2.79?

[@_Bayul]

Can anybody tell me what pinning down (ctrl P) is doing after unwrapping? Why would I use this?

[@nikolaykataew1005]

Thanks! It's magic!

[@OGDooshbagg]

Why can't I find a video of texturing multi-surface objects? I made a street sign in Blender 2.80, but can't separate the pole from the sign to texture them. I'm guessing I have to mark seams before I UV unwrap?

[@juliandarley]

definitely a most fascinating workflow with an excellent result. two requests: 1) would it be possible to turn the music off? it is very distracting and i really want to hear and concentrate on what you are saying, and 2) could you supply the input images and/or maps, please? i tried to substitute my own blistered paint maps, having run the image (eaglepaintingcompany.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/iStock_000005396820Small.jpg) through Bitmap2Material, and the results were poor and let down the whole texturing process. i realise you cannot use paid-for maps, but perhaps you could provide something you have generated yourself in Substance Designer? all the more frustrating because your results are so impressive!

[@StrikeDigital3D]

a really great program for converting albedo maps to PBR materials is Materialize. its completely free and does an amazing job! just search it up on youtube or google and you should find it.

[@talebamin3999]

Thank you

[@magicpixeltree]

Awesome

[@Nikuloki]

OMG! New video!

[@Quarther]

Thank you!

[@pstuddy]

But if you bake out all those textures and apply them to multiple objects, wouldn't they all look identical?

[@CZghost]

Nothing easier to bake multiple textures, with multiple variations ;)

[@63bert]

Is it not possible to incorporate all the Mix Nodes so that it does not have to be built up each time?

[@3DDeals]

great video- i highly advise you to lower the music volume in future videos. i did subscribe thought, keep it up

[@Yarogor]

Cool music, can you share a name of track? )

[@cXrisp]

Thank you! I am grateful for this info and will be studying your videos for a while. But PLEASE, I vote for no more drum beats tinking away behind your voice in future videos. It sounds like you are listening to music while you record the narration -- super annoying. But that aside, great videos!

[@musashidanmcgrath]

The edge mask is the only one not working for me. It just displays as black(CTRL+SHIFT click)None of the sliders have any effect. Even tested on a default cube. All other masks preview as expected. EDIT: just realised that edge mask is only supported by Cycles. Hopefully EEVEE supports it in future.

[@pixelplanet3095]

same here.. Have you figured it out?

[@musashidanmcgrath]

@@pixelplanet3095 You need the bevel node plugged into the normal.

[@pixelplanet3095]

@@musashidanmcgrath ya bro I did that.. even its still not working

[@musashidanmcgrath]

@@pixelplanet3095 Just figured it out, mate. The edge effect is only supported by Cycles. Doesn't work in EEVEE. Hopefully the dev will sort that out.

[@WaywardArtCompany]

I do believe the bevel node will work in EEVEE in the near future. :)

[@samimo2319]

My Edge mask is just black... anyone now why? :/