Better Edge Masks in Blender - Procedural Texturing

[@zillaquazar]

The music, the visuals, the style, it feels like I'm watching a history documentary getting to the climax of a great battle all while learning about blender. This is so well done thankyou. I have subscribed now

[@TTTristan1]

This is what I love about Blender video creators/the community at large. You feel like you're discovering a powerful treasure when you watch/hear about new techniques.

[@arifinaja963]

Agree

[@ArnaudMEURET]

The music is too loud.

[@matbrady123456]

@@valerys.219 I loved the music. It made it much more epic. Riley, ignore that person's comment.

[@ethancotton1549]

I was thinking the same thing lmao!

[@ThoughtsFew]

A heads up for anyone following along that still happens to be a beginner. He's rendering in cycles and is previewing his nodes with Ctrl,Shift,+ left click on the desired node with the node wrangler addon. Also, if your mesh has custom normals your results may vary.

[@dacastror]

thank you very much for your message, I'm new to blender and this helped me a lot, thanks again

[@ThoughtsFew]

@@dacastror happy to hear!

[@darkscorpion6534]

How do i get this to work with my added texture and blue colour?

[@Rocketcityninja]

@@darkscorpion6534 Add a mix shader plugging this into the Fac.

[@dalerogers3114]

many Thanks

[@RyanKingArt]

Wow this is amazing! 👍‍👍‍

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I think i dont speak only for my self when i say this: PLEASE, keep this quality, clearity, proffessionality in your future videos and you have a Subscriber forever!

[@ckat609]

I love it when tutorials that actually explains things and teaches you instead of being just follow step by step videos. Awesome!

[@LonnonFoster]

I've been playing with a number of other people's techniques for edge masking in Blender, and some of them have the bevel and dot product combination in them, but hidden so deeply in a more complicated node group that it's difficult to figure out what's really happening. This tutorial is simplicity itself, and elegantly presented. Thank you for finally making me understand what's been in front of my eyes for a long time!

[@pixelstresd2971]

Here on my PC, the material is black. What did I do wrong?

[@kirloi]

Did i just watch an hollywood budget quality movie about a freaking custom node?? This is amazing!

[@nagysamuel2575]

I've integrated this method into literally all the projects I do with blender, can't thank you enough Riley.

[@pixelstresd2971]

Here on my PC, the material is black. What did I do wrong?

[@Igoreshkin]

@@pixelstresd2971 It's ONLY work in CYCLES

[@bivas108]

This tutorial was just on an another level. I have watched hours and hours worth of Blender tutorials in my life and the production quality of this video and the explanation given was stellar. WOW

[@pixelstresd2971]

Here on my PC, the material is black. What did I do wrong?

[@anacatarina_teixeira]

THANK YOU for explaining what's actually going on behind the clicks, finally a tutorial that teaches you the tool and not just how to get a super specific result

[@alexvith]

I love it when someone manages to explain a concept in detail in just 5 minutes, plus all that's behind. Great video!

[@grabbitt]

That's very useful. thanks

[@kouyopoto]

Hey that's fun to see you here, I was thinking of your tutorial on crystals painting while looking at this video

[@cosmicoverlap]

Fancy seeing you here. I watch your videos all the time, except when I was watching this one....Ok I'll go back to watching yours. :))

[@cosmicoverlap]

Most enthralling blender tutorial that I've viewed with copious delight. In all seriousness, thank you for making this video!!

[@blank_9565]

This is like one of the first procedural texturing tutorials on youtube that actually explains whats happening and helps with understanding this complicated area of blender. Also this is just amazing Ive always used pointiness for edge masks but this is a lot simpler and quicker! Huge thanks man

[@KayouaXiong]

I just spent hours searching and tried many different methods and none worked or didn't work the way I wanted it to. Your explanation was the best! I also wanted to thank you for explaining why this method was better, it makes a huge difference. :)

[@Sanry.]

thats only work in cycles render

[@victorpresle2695]

one of the cleanest easiest tutorial, not only is it incredibly useful and versatile it is also well made, well done

[@keterbinah3091]

not good enough , i need this tutorial to be confusing and long winded , this tut was niether, it was fast clear and to the point , (😁) have subbed , ive been using substance painter , last 5 yrs , dropped it yesterday , ( what realy happend , i downloaded , updated a gpu driver & substance painter wouldnt let me back into the version i was using before Adobe took over !) i cant aford heating , let alone monthly subscription, so im here , it was only the edgeware & dirt , in substance painter anyway. , thankyou sir , this is gold .👍

[@Frank_G_Finster]

I have seen lots of tutorials on this topic. This is the first one which really delivers nicely controllable results and is explained decently. Thank you very much!

[@Pipubbles]

Genuinely this was done so beautifully, I am surprised it doesn’t have a million views

[@tobiashagstrom4168]

This treats convex and concave geometry the same though, which is not at all what you want for almost anything type of object I can think of. For example, metal would be most oxidized or dirty in concave areas where dirt and moisture can accumulate slightly easier, forming rust, and prevents it all from from being rubbed off by natural wear. A convex area is more likely to have contact with other objects or receiver concentrated wear, which might make it cleaner and shinier, or might ruin the finish and give it a worn-in roughness, depending on its properties and what it's subjected to. The only context in which a convex area would accumulate more rust or dirt more than a flatter area is if the convex areas are already worn down a bit, perhaps having some rust-resistant finish destroyed or worn to a rougher surface where rust penetrates better or dirt sticks easier, but that's only if it's first worn in, and then left in a state were it doesn't receiver further wear that would clean it, allowing rust or dust to settle on the worn surfaces. So perhaps for abandoned metal objects this could make some sense, but nothing outside of that, I don't think.

[@sibience]

In theory you could try one of two things to fix this. You could just bake this down as a texture and then paint out the edges you don't want, do the opposite for convex and concave edges so you end up with two masks. Or another method that doesn't give you quite as much control would be to use the AO node with an invert node to subtract the parts you don't need.

[@ollied2025]

this can be fixed with more math. i'll have a go and report back if i figure it out

[@tiagopesce]

the nodes modeled in 3d was an awesome touch.. i just want to point i was NEEDING this exactly for ages, some low poly models never get good in regular AO and i gonna test this node-tree!

[@Ethan_Avila]

A appreciate the fact that you visually explained what we are doing in the process. I almost never leave a comment but this is worth it. Subscribed

[@oneiromultimedia1]

the fact that you recreated the nodes visually in blender is soooooo meta!!

[@sim2g]

Absolute gem of a Blender tutorial with results you can use over and over again with your own projects. I'm your new follower! Big like.

[@DECODEDVFX]

I've been using basically the same method recently to make edge masks. Good video mate. Subscribed.

[@renderllama7036]

yo decoded!

[@capnanaya4642]

@@renderllama7036 hes not gonna reply to you

[@t.hartig4570]

This is epic! I love how the tutorial is set up... No unnecessary bs around... Perfectly arranged with the goal described and always in focus. Detailed and not overloaded.... Und underlined with dramatic classical music...! Bam you made my day! Thx.

[@hashimseyyid951]

i dont think anyone can dislike this video. everything on point

Watching this tutorial without paying made me feel like I'm stealing . It's the perfect tutorial ever

[@batman3698]

Clever! The pointiness node was never quite good enough because it relies on how tight the edge loops are. This is much more useful. Thanks.

[@arusblog7356]

Your videos are so underrated! This is the best tutorial video, I've ever seen!)))

[@guilhermerizzo1984]

THIS! This is simply THE BEST tutorial format I've ever see! Congrats!

[@SAGERUNE]

Holy shit dude.... might be the most concise tutorial i have ever watched.

[@rileyb3d]

Thanks! 😅

[@kocking]

This went Insaneo Style. Much appreciated!!!! the knowledge, the cinematics, music and efficiently delivering gold in 5 minutes. Epic.

[@felipeirnyo5001]

I just loved how you made this tutorial, all the soundtrack and your explanation of how things work gave me a very good "intelligent" vibe, and the tool is very good tho! congratulations man!

[@asherkennedy1276]

This dude knows what he's talking about and explains it well!

[@brentogara]

This was awesome! One of the cleanest, best Blender tutorials I've seen, and you've explained the usefulness of dot product without hurting my brain with math! :D

[@antoineissahaswany3866]

You teach everything in an easy way and explain all the details behind what you're doing and how things work! thank you so much, this was aamazing!

[@onexqw12]

Thankyou, I cant explain how helpful this is.... as you mention the other methods just don't quite cut it, this is just what I've needed

[@xmexian]

I think the point where it actually made me subscribe is that the video has actual good editing. and i'm like a sheep for great editing

[@bruce4551]

Feels like i'm a quantum physics student now

[@mrdvus12]

Love how you animated the tutorial in blender too, its a great reminder of how blender can be used

[@rileyb3d]

Exactly! This just happens to be a blender tutorial with blender animation. Think about the limitless amounts of topics and ideas you can help visualize with animation!

[@pixelstresd2971]

Here on my PC, the material is black. What did I do wrong?

[@shameless5445]

my god do more of these you explain it all so well

[@Mocorn]

Oh man, you're going places! It's rare that I subscribe after one video but this one did the trick. Outstanding stuff!

[@estefannysaucedopena850]

It's so pleasing. The setuping and mastering softs amazing.

[@SirLithen]

The production value alone earned my sub!

[@BrianLife]

Your Node link says Page Not found. I love the way you described all this, and visuals are great!

[@ed2fun]

thank you so much, I haad long time trying to do this, I was trying by free style, I am an independent comic creator starting to learn and use 3d models and blender to improve my work flow, but was hard convince 3d elements ina 2d environment and I need to make many things and send a lot of time trying to make things look good, with this method I can simply create with freedom any complex model and use your method to create a line art and I will start experimenting with colors and textures to save time, imagine I make a 3d environment that I can translate to a 2d environment almost instantly 😮that can save me tons of time, I have no words to thank you 🥰

[@dimitrilalushi4693]

Thanks for those tutorials. It is evident that they are products of dedication. Every aspect of them is very well put: The examples, the clarity in narration , the background music etc, all are very nice. Now, as to the topic of the video: It is ok with the edge detection but the rarely mentioned need, in videos related to this topic, is that of finding a node arrangement which can differentiate between the indented and outdented edges (so that someone can put 'dirt' and 'decay' in the proper areas of a model). If you have any solution-answer to this need keep in mind, please, to make a tutorial about it.

[@adrianrock4610]

waw ... no words for this level of blender understanding... thanks for sharing bro... beautifull, clear and effective video

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

Excellent technique, and very well explained. The first use I've seen for the dot product operation.

[@jankschmid]

Damn, the quality is out of this world. Keep going!!

[@Smooth_Shading]

Wow, man. Incredible production value on a tutorial. I really like your style and delivery. Thanks for making this and keep up the great work my friend!

[@ArchbardWava]

Thank you, Riley! This may end up being the most important CG production of the year for me. Extremely useful, straight to the point and yields amazing results.

[@dvl973]

I never thought Jon Snow would be teaching me blender

[@z-beeblebrox]

Turns out he knows something after all

[@scpk2246]

whoah! you just answered what's inside my head

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know nothing

[@lavatr8322]

Lmfao!

[@maxleveladventures]

Ended up going with AO since I got a better, faster result on my particular model, but that and the other method you showed were both so much better than the pointiness method I was using (with horrible results). So thanks for showing 3 ways to do it when you could have just shown the one!

[@pixelstresd2971]

Here on my PC, the material is black. What did I do wrong?

[@nanchark-repositorio]

Awesome and outstanding literally saw a pointness tutorial, and then an AO one, this is a life saver

[@Suzuki_Hiakura]

I used to think such work was unnecessary, as I was working on low poly objects... started looking into blending edges with textures as beveling helps me to smooth edges, but increases geometry exponentially (when using many low poly objects). Looking forward to using this method too, as it works in cycles :D

[@paulandrews__]

Some of my favourite Blender KZbinrs have already commented on your video, but I'm going to add my 2 cents to the comments pool anyway. Love your professional animation of the GUI elements and appreciate this workflow tip enormously. Thank you!

[@pixelstresd2971]

Here on my PC, the material is black. What did I do wrong?

[@23DeltaImaging]

With this level of production, the only thing I could do in the end was subscribe. Classical music for background in a blender tutorial, holly sh...

[@ynaPonte]

a tutorial where you actually learn something and not just repeat what you saw on screen. Keep up the great content!

[@SZMIDEL]

Beautiful production level. Saved for future reference and subscribed for future blender wisdom

[@rileyb3d]

Thank you! I'm happy to have you on board. Let me know if you have any questions!

[@drunkenmuse]

This is the 10/10 content I'm looking for

[@SpiritGear]

How is this channel 1.8k subs !? this is incredibly well made and insightful!!!!

[@AliceLoverdrive]

I'm not even using blender, but this was useful. Didn't ever think about using normal info for edge detection. Probably better for my goals than depth or color map.

[@spatraart]

Man you make cinematic art out of tutorials, like I am excited to learn, amazing! This Jon snow definitely knows something haha I have Subscribed

[@SuperemeRed]

Damn, this is top tier. Short, on to the point, and well presented, going just enough into the details. Great job and keep it up!

[@chargel1347]

I would rate this tutorial perfect, in every aspect of it you put the details to make this amazing content, thank you.

[@Flandelacasa]

this video made me subscribe! Please make more, they are good. You are good. You have raised the bar for tutorials for me, now.

[@pixelstresd2971]

Here on my PC, the material is black. What did I do wrong?

[@intruderstudio4703]

The asthetic is incredible ! Congrats!

[@rahuldasgupta1491]

This was brilliant. Your explanation on this has amazing clarity. Subscribed.Now to actually try it out.

[@FelixMiklik-wn6tl]

thank you so much for this... coming from Redshift trying to find a 'curvature' node or this (your) approach is truly helpful... thank you!

[@Confuseddave]

I remember when the pointiness node was added, I was so excited for my procedural textures! Many struggles later, and I'm very glad to see a less finnicky method. :)

[@CaseyFaris]

What N INSANELY well done video. Great work.

[@teflonishighlytoxic222]

brilliant solution, short sweet, logic explained clearly, and I love the the little modeled nodes you animated for the video, lol such a simple little thing to do, but it really gives a ton of production value to your video.

[@izzak6189]

To add wear to the edges mix a black and white grunge image in a mix color set to screen and use a color ramp to hone in the white and black values to break up the edges

[@KhalilBizani]

art and math combined. thanks for this Masterpiece. RESPECT

[@RSpudieD]

That was great and to the point! What a well-done tutorial/ walkthrough! This method is pretty interesting and as you were explaining it, it all made sense, especially removing the two normal maps to get just the bevel information. That's a good trick! Good work!

[@furkanzengin8298]

I haven't seen a better tutorial on youtube/udemy/skillshare any platform that you can think of. Every youtube video ends with people asking us to subscribe/like etc but you deserve this more than most of the people. I would like to see more and more content from you keep it up I hope you can grow a good audience.

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Wow. I am instantly in love with this! The presentation is so professional yet extremely accesible at the same time. You’ve definitely gained me as a permanent subscriber! :) good stuff!

[@cinntoastcrunch8]

That's a pretty cool technique and I had no idea there even was a bevel node. Just wanted to point out you don't have any way of separating concavity from convexity which is a pretty big limitation. For instance at the start you were using it as a rust mask but rust doesn't accumulate on convex edges. You could maybe subtract AO from the final result but I'm not sure that would be a perfect solution

[@CosmoWenman]

This is a problem, and would prevent this technique from making realistic results for lots of scratch/highlight/dirt applications. And if we need to subtract AO in order to differentiate convex and concave we're back to the original limitations of just using AO in the first place.

[@cinntoastcrunch8]

@@CosmoWenman Haha yeah that's a fair point

[@CosmoWenman]

@@cinntoastcrunch8 maybe AO through a color ramp set to constant would be enough to separate concave and convex cleanly enough. The problem with AO for a dirtmap is shown in the beginning of this video--depending on geometry it can extend past where it's needed. But maybe compressed to on/off it might work.

[@cinntoastcrunch8]

@@CosmoWenman I think your original point still stands. You lose a lot of control as soon as you start relying on one of the other nodes

[@KaizenTutorials]

This is a very well done, clear and concise tutorial. Thanks!

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The first channel that I subscribed after watching only one video

[@rileyb3d]

Thank you!

[@eiplek1244]

I'm absolutely convinced that this is the best channel on KZbin. 😎

[@lecona6218]

Doesnt seem to be working for me. Tried it on a cube but i just get a white box that flickers black when i change the from min value

[@chrionite]

for me it only works in cycles

[@MatthieuFremeaux]

A cube hasn't any concave/convex parts so it's not a good choice to test this technic on a cube

[@groggod666]

@@MatthieuFremeaux does not work even on complex meshes for me. weird. maybe a 4.0 thing?

[@scarit.]

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[@MaxSonicUA]

One of the most well done videos about blender that I ever seen. Bravo!

[@zsoltoravecz1815]

Cool ide. I combined it with vertex color on the bevel radius, so you can tweak the size of the edge mask

[@liangyijin4718]

Wow. The best edge mask tutorial ever. Liked and subscribed. Amazing content!!!!

[@icepirate07]

You have a similar style like Daniel danielson which is what i really love about your videos. Great stuff!

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I LOVE YOU ! I mean ... this is what I've been looking for a really long time now ! Thank you mate !

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I LOVE the presentation of these tutorials

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This video is great at explaining every step and what each thing does.

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I love this unique style of yours, and the way you presented the whole video was marvelous to watch and educational too, learnt a lot! Earned a sub! Keep it up

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Wow, that is cinematic Youtubing ... Great ! I hope, that you will get at least 10% of the applause you deserve. Well done mate !

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This is the most satisfying tutorial I've seen recently... I hit subscribe without hesitation!

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I would gladly sell my house and all my possessions to watch another tutorial so flashy and LOUD

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the level of quality of this tutorial

[@morzsiHUN]

This video surpassed my expectations, it really well made.

[@schwammmueri8629]

Appreciated the tutorial a lot. I never figured out what the best way is to texture bevels. Up to this day I always combined them with a MixRGB node set to subtract, which brings some atrifacts with it and I needed some additial nodes to fix that.

[@StevenPtasinski]

Well done! Knowing why and how to adjust is priceless.

[@danielnewton2390]

Those 3d nodes in your visuals are amazing