How To Make Complex Materials Easily in Blender!

In this Blender tutorial I will show you a process to make Complex Looking procedural materials in blender. The goal is to show that procedural materials are approachable and easy to do!
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[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.

[Eriodas]

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

[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

[masonleblanc]

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

[andyloconte]

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

[BadNessie]

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

[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.

[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.

[jambot]

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!

[DerperDaDerpa]

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

[FilmSpook]

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

[luisalejandro]

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.

[nawbert]

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 <3

[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

[DerperDaDerpa]

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

[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.

[ARANDOMOPENAIUSER]

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

[kocurekovher]

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😉

[ВикторУваев-гу]

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

[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!