Blender 2.6 Cycles Materials And Textures
What I like about this book are the features 'How to do it' and 'How it works' which follows each project describing why he chose the methods and why it works.Chapter One is a gentle introduction taking the reader through a step by step process with color photos. The author explains how increasing the sampling rate reduces the fireflies in a 3D image. He shows how mesh lights produce a soft diffuse light. He uses an hdr image to produce light effects on the subject while giving the reader the What I like about this book are the features 'How to do it' and 'How it works' which follows each project describing why he chose the methods and why it works.Chapter One is a gentle introduction taking the reader through a step by step process with color photos. The author explains how increasing the sampling rate reduces the fireflies in a 3D image. He shows how mesh lights produce a soft diffuse light.
Blender 2.6 Cycles Materials And Textures Pack
He uses an hdr image to produce light effects on the subject while giving the reader the option to make the hdr image disappear while keeping the effect which seems like magic.Chapter two the author shows how to organize inorder to save time when beginning a new texture as well as providing the reader a way to modify just one file instead of a series of files. It begins with a spheroid on a plane.The rest of the book involves precise recipes using nodes, different textures like the Voroni texture which has a high degree of realism in its crunchy looking texture. Other texture from the Blender cycles render include fresnel, displacement, Musgrave and noise to achieve a variety of texture projects ice, running water, sand, metal, bronze, stone, polystyrene, Bakelite, glass, sponge, rubber, wood, cloth, tree bark, tree leaves, ocean, spaceship hull and Earth.My favorite projects come from chapter five ocean surface and under water environment. The author constructs the ocean surface using three node groups: one group for the basic ocean plane, another for reflections holds fresnel, reflective and IOR values while a third node group holds foam location values. For the underwater environment the author begins with a cube rescaled twenty one times. He uses a subdivision modifier, ocean modifier geometry displacements.
For both ocean projects he uses the linear extrapolation to make the ocean animation constant. I like the underwater fog he added for the added degree of realism.
The author, Enrico Valenza, is an experienced and professional Blender user so a book by him is certainly worth checking out. The book presents some thirty shaders in a cookbook style and offers many insights in the Cycles rendering system not limited to specific materials. Although a cookbook implies that you can use the recipes as they are presented, the techniques that are offered in the book will get you a lot further than that and will help you develop skills necessary to develop your own The author, Enrico Valenza, is an experienced and professional Blender user so a book by him is certainly worth checking out. The book presents some thirty shaders in a cookbook style and offers many insights in the Cycles rendering system not limited to specific materials.
Enrico Valenza, art director and lead artist of open movie Big Buck Bunny and 2d-3d complete artist presents us this new (relatively, has already two years of development!) Unbiased rendering engine and leads us to discover the creation of materials and complex shader to use in our projects. I am very happy with this cookbook, which covers the creative and artistic components of Cycles, explaining in an easy way the generic mechanisms and settings of the rendering. If mainly focused on what it Enrico Valenza, art director and lead artist of open movie Big Buck Bunny and 2d-3d complete artist presents us this new (relatively, has already two years of development!) Unbiased rendering engine and leads us to discover the creation of materials and complex shader to use in our projects. I am very happy with this cookbook, which covers the creative and artistic components of Cycles, explaining in an easy way the generic mechanisms and settings of the rendering. If mainly focused on what it was conceived cycles for: the creation and preview of complex and realistic shaders and materials in an easy way.Really recommended for those who are beginning now with the Blender open source 3D software and for those coming from Blender Internal render engine, as well as for anyone who has already used the Cycles renderer and wishing to explore advanced shading or simply discover the proper way of doing things. Like any cookbook, enables anyone to obtain in a few, good quality steps, materials for Cycles.
I happily noticed that no step has been taken for granted. Even the simplest: '.Split the 3D view into two horizontal rows: move the mouse cursor onto the edge of the window; the cursor changes to a double arrow icon, right-click, and from the context menu select Split Area.' Is explained, so that even those who approach Blender for the first time can be immediately productive. More, soon after like any cookbook, enables anyone to obtain in a few, good quality steps, materials for Cycles. I happily noticed that no step has been taken for granted. Even the simplest: '.Split the 3D view into two horizontal rows: move the mouse cursor onto the edge of the window; the cursor changes to a double arrow icon, right-click, and from the context menu select Split Area.'
Is explained, so that even those who approach Blender for the first time can be immediately productive. More, soon after the author explains the reason for each step, and this is the part where this book becomes really valuable. Enrico Valenza is a complete artist, he knows how to get a good material both with pencils and brushes as in Cycles. When he's explaining, for example, specularity, the concept is so clear that can be easily applied both in Cycles as in any other rendering engine you have at your hands. Although this book is categorized as a Cookbook, I've found it to be a lot more informative than a simple list of steps leading towards a goal, as each recipe is accompanied with insightful notes relating to the techniques used and accompanied with full color illustrations clearly depicting key points of the steps involved. The writers concise style also lends itself well to the cookbook format, but at the same time the examples are not too specific such that adapting the information to my own Although this book is categorized as a Cookbook, I've found it to be a lot more informative than a simple list of steps leading towards a goal, as each recipe is accompanied with insightful notes relating to the techniques used and accompanied with full color illustrations clearly depicting key points of the steps involved.
The writers concise style also lends itself well to the cookbook format, but at the same time the examples are not too specific such that adapting the information to my own experiences with Blender were in any way difficult. The book also comes with a useful set of example files that should be obtained from the publishers website.